Taunting

[dennis luehring]

Ary Borenszweig schrieb:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> 
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> BCS wrote:
>>>> Reply to Ary,
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtYCFVPfx4M
>>>>>
>>>> The clunk you just heard is my jaw bouncing on the floor <G> NICE!!!!!
>>> It would be very nice to have such a debugging feature. Too bad it's
>>> hardcoded into a very bug GUI system.
>> 
>> Yes, heaven forbid Ary spends his time adding and improving features
>> when he should be building a new editor from the ground up.
>> 
>> In all seriousness, I hate IDEs because they are big, slow, and waste
>> vast tracts of prime monitor space.  But I'm willing to put up with that
>> for Descent's compile-time view and (hopefully soon) compile-time debugging.
>> 
>> If I could get that in a super fast, light programming editor, I'd use
>> that instead.  But I can't.
>> 
>> Although it is annoying when I'm out and about on my little netbook and
>> can't use Eclipse.  C'est la vie.
> 
> Another problem with Descent is that it's kind of buggy (yes, I know 
> it). But most of the bugs are because of errors in the semantic analysis 
> ported from DMD's front end. So, for example, some template 
> instantiations fail when they shouldn't.

maybe we should think about extending dmd itselfe to give you
and runtime interface to the compile which can be used for
features like that - any ideas?