Voldemort Types in D

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:05:36 Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2012 08:58:56 -0700, Nicolas Sicard <dransic at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 14:30:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/telhj/voldemort_types_in_d/
> >> 
> >> Andrei
> > 
> > One drawback of Voldemort types, is that they are incompatible with the
> > generation of .di files (option -H).
> > 
> > See http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5461.
> > 
> > Nicolas
> 
> This pull fixes this problem and a bunch of others:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/928. However, it
> currently fails to build on Linux and fails the unittests on Windows
> thanks to a problem with the dur template function in std.datetime. The
> solution used by this pull is to include the function body of the
> auto-function as that was needed to allow Phobos to build correctly using
> the DRT DI files. This is the only workable solution as DMD does not know
> the type of an auto-function when DI files are generated. No semantic
> analysis has been performed and since semantic analysis could change the
> layout of a module you wouldn't want it to be
> performed.

Actually, dur is in core.time (which is publicly imported by std.datetime), 
but regardless, what's wrong with it? It's incredibly straightforward.

- Jonathan M Davis