dmd 2.029 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> So I'd rather have a sink function.
>>
>> It must be a sink _object_ so it can hold its own state. And it must 
>> support put() so it integrates with statically-bound output ranges.
>>
>> interface OutRange
>> {
>>     void put(... a number of overloads ...);
>> }
> 
> What exactly is the problem with requiring the input to the sink to be a 
> string (or actually const(char)[])?

You'd be forced to use intermediate strings for everything. I guess it's 
not a huge concern.

> Requiring an overload for every basic type + Object would be quite 
> cumbersome if you had to do it every time you want to send the output 
> somewhere else. Also, it wouldn't work for structs and unions...
> (Unless you plan to implement a default OutRange that converts 
> everything it gets to strings and passes it on?)

I'm thinking of only allowing a few fundamental types and then have user 
code build the rest using them.


Andrei