QtD 0.1 is out!

[Frits van Bommel]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Christopher Wright wrote:
>>>> Additionally, the compiler has sufficient information to complain 
>>>> about the problem at compile time, but it doesn't. That is a bug.
>>>
>>> No, it does not. The compiler doesn't know about private imports of 
>>> separately compiled modules.
>>
>> Okay, the compiler could gain that information, but it does not, since 
>> it is not required. In many cases, the compiler could detect these 
>> issues. Detecting these would be a reasonable, if low priority, 
>> enhancement.
> 
> The problem if it detects it in an implementation-defined manner is the 
> source code is no longer portable.

... If the result of compilation provably won't *run* anyway, what's the 
problem with a compile-time error?