dmd 1.065 and 2.050 release

Don nospam at nospam.com
Wed Nov 3 13:38:14 PDT 2010


Stephan wrote:
> On 03.11.2010 13:29, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:35:27 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> This is primarily a bug fix release.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.065.zip
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.050.zip
>>
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors for yet another good release.  My personal
>> favourites this time must be the relaxed purity rules (yay, now I can
>> actually use pure), the improvements to Tuple (finally, proper
>> indexing!), and the fixing of bug 4465 (which may seem trivial, but which
>> I've been running into several times a day for a long time).
>>
>> -Lars
> 
> Speaking of fancy pure. When will will the std lib actually start to use 
> it ? I tried to use pure lately but as soon as i used phobos methods i 
> hit a wall. e.g why is std.string.format not pure ? i did not look into 
> it but in my pov it does not change any state and does just return a 
> value depending on the given arguments.

Most development of Phobos is done with the last released version of 
DMD, not the version under development. So you'll almost never see 
Phobos using features from the compiler it is released with.


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