Descent 0.5.4 released

[Ary Borenszweig]

Ary Borenszweig escribió:
> The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
> and debugging code in D.
> 
> Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
> 
> New features:
>  - Compile-time view (Window -> Show View -> Other -> D -> Compile-time 
> View): allows you to see things from the compiler point of view, which 
> applies some transformations to the source code. For example you can see 
> what happens when you do a foreach, when you invoke an "extension 
> method", when you do operator overloading; know what type has an auto 
> variable; how struct fields are accessed?; compiler optimizations. It 
> also removes conditionals that evaluate to false, and shows the results 
> of mixins in-place. As always, this is far from perfect and a lot of 
> things can be improved. For the lazies, I'll later upload a video about 
> this. :-)
>  - Now hovering over a mixin (over the "mixin" keyword) shows it's 
> result in a popup.
>  - Now hovering over a function or template instance with ctrl+shift 
> shows it's compile-time result (with shift only: it's source code).

Just a small remark: the probability that these things stop working is 
bigger if the code is spread in many modules. That's because I did some 
optimizations and lazy loading of some symbols, and sometimes it doesn't 
work (I'll fix that, eveeeeeeentualy). So this should work better in a 
single module. That's why this should be a good aid for prototyping new 
functionality that heavily uses mixins, templates and compile-time 
evaluation. :-)