dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Moritz Warning]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:53:49 +0200, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:

> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> のしいか (noshiika) escribió:
>>> Thank you for the great work, Walter and all the other contributors.
>>>
>>> But I am a bit disappointed with the CaseRangeStatement syntax. Why is
>>> it
>>>    case 0: .. case 9:
>>> instead of
>>>    case 0 .. 9:
>>>
>>> With the latter notation, ranges can be easily used together with
>>> commas, for example:
>>>    case 0, 2 .. 4, 6 .. 9:
>>>
>>> And CaseRangeStatement, being inconsistent with other syntaxes using
>>> the .. operator, i.e. slicing and ForeachRangeStatement, includes the
>>> endpoint.
>>> Shouldn't D make use of another operator to express ranges that
>>> include the endpoints as Ruby or Perl6 does?
>> 
>> I agree.
>> 
>> I think this syntax is yet another one of those things people looking
>> at D will say "ugly" and turn their heads away.
> 
> 
> When the discussion first came up in the NG, I was a bit sceptical about
> Andrei's suggestion for the case range statement as well. Now, I
> definitely think it's the best choice, and it's only because I realised
> it can be written like this:
> 
>      case 1:
>      ..
>      case 4:
>          // do stuff
> 
[snip]

I think it looks much better that way and users are more likely to be 
comfortable with the syntax.
I hope it will be displayed in the examples that way.

Still, the syntax at all looks a bit alien because it's a syntax addition.