dmd 1.057 and 2.041 release

[bearophile]

Steven Schveighoffer:
> For completely unambiguous, yes.  But still, I find often that quotes are  
> more noise than they are worth when just doing simple printouts.  What we  
> want is the most useful default.

Quotes add a bit of noise, but I prefer to tell apart the cases of two strings from the case of one string with a comma in the middle.


> This would mean that strings have a special case of printing with quotes  
> only when printed inside an array.  This seems like an oddity to me.

It's how Python works, that's why there are __repr__ and __str__ for objects, the repr of a string includes the quotes, its __str__ doesn't.

>>> a = ["hello world", ["that's right!", "you"]]
>>> a
['hello world', ["that's right!", 'you']]
>>> print a
['hello world', ["that's right!", 'you']]
>>> a[0]
'hello world'
>>> print a[0]
hello world

Notes:
- that 'a' contains a string and an array of strings, you usually can't do this in D, so this is not a fully representative example;
- Python is dynamically typed, so it's more important that what you print shows its type. In D you can often tell it looking at type of the variable you print (unless it's hidden by a labyrinth of 'auto').

Bye,
bearophile