Delight

[Thomas Leonard]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:54 +0200, Johan Granberg wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
> 
>> Mosfet:
>>> Is there any performance loss from compared to D language ?
>> 
>> No, it's just D1 resyntaxed. That is, it generally improves on the
>> old-school syntax of D ;-)
>> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> How complet is the page? From wath I read there was several good
> features missing from D1 and if it's just a resyntax thats a shame :)

It's now based on D2. The main problem was that Tango's D2 branch doesn't 
work with GDC, so I had to switch to Phobos instead.

Pretty much all D syntax has a direct equivalent in Delight. The main 
missing things are:

- labels (and therefore goto). They might come back later (with a new 
  syntax, since colon is used for indented blocks).

- anonymous functions are limited to expressions (as in Python).

In addition, these things are only available to modules in the dlt.* 
namespace:

- module level variables
- static variables
- extern

This is to encourage external libraries to be wrapped, since they 
generally don't fit in with the style the language is experimenting with.

> Looks good overall thou I'm particularly curious about how the
> dependency injection will turn out. It feels slightly similar to pure in
> an object oriented way :)