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[deadalnix]

Le 06/11/2012 17:46, Walter Bright a écrit :
> On 11/6/2012 8:27 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> OK, I may break all the happiness of that news but . . .
>>
>> Tuple in D is notoriously known to be a badly designed feature. Basing
>> more
>> stuff on that just because we have them is short sighted and will only
>> result in
>> D's tuples being broken forever, several tuples implementations for
>> more user
>> confusion, or future major breakage.
>
> The only real trouble with tuples is that functions can't return them.
>

If it is the only problem, we have a pandemic spread of hallucinogen 
trance amongs D users.

>
>> We still don't have any scheme for a stable D, feature testing or
>> whatever,
>
> Are you aware of the test suite and the auto-tester?
>

Yes, I'm also aware I hit compiler bugs on a daily basis, that my 
codebase is full of workaround on some of them.

>
>> Let's not talk these awesome static code analysis tools, java would
>> become jealous.
>
> I have no idea what your point is.

My point is that we have no tooling. Project exists, but they all ends 
up dead at some point or ends up not caring about compatibility that 
much (I'm aware of at least 3 serious D like projects that dropped dmd 
compatibility after spending quite a lot of time on it).

The situation is really bad in that regard (many stuff are 
implementation defined, or even not defined at all because the 
implementation is known to be buggy), and adding surprise, half 
specified features are really not helping.

If you have no idea what my point is, I'm probably wasting my time 
working on D.