DMD 2.006 release

[renoX]

Bill Baxter a écrit :
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Witold Baryluk wrote:
>>> Dnia Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:03:26 -0700
>>> Walter Bright <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> napisał/a:
>>>
>>>> Strings are now invariant. More library overhauls, new library
>>>> modules. These changes exacerbated problems with const/volatile, so
>>>> next up is overhauling that.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.006.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> Greate release!
>>>
>>> (And three previous also :D)
>>>
>>>
>>> But what is rational reason for this?
>>>
>>> "Breaking change: std.stdio.writef can now only accept a format as its
>>> first argument."
>>>
>>> const/invariant problems, performance? Or it was too complicated?
>>>
>>> I thing that     writefln("a=%d", a, "b=%.3f", b);
>>> is more readble than
>>>     writefln("a=%d b=%d", a, b);
>>> (in some sense)
> 
> Nevermind, you're right.  The changelog summary is worded poorly. 
> Looking at std.stdio the actual situation is:
>   "writef (and also writefln) only scans its first string argument for 
> format specifiers, but not subsequent string arguments."
> 
> That is too bad.  I always thought the interspersed formats thing was a 
> cool feature of writef/writefln.

Agreed, this is a big regression, I hope that it'll be fixed.

renoX

> 
> --bb