dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sat May 15 00:47:09 PDT 2010


Walter Bright wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> I saw the patches, and having all hardcoded in the compiler doesn't seems
>> like a good idea =/
> 
> I know the hardcoding is probably not the best, but I wanted to try it 
> out to see if it was a good feature before committing a lot of work to it.
> 
> The alternative is to use some sort of configuration file for it. The 
> problem, though, is that the hints are for newbies, and newbies probably 
> aren't going to get a configuration file properly set up, especially if 
> there are multiple such files.

I think the only purpose of such a feature is to increase the chance 
that a newbie's "hello world" compiles successfully. The importance of 
that can't be underestimated, I think. First impressions matter.


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