Remus

[Namespace]

On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 07:25:14 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 06:34:26 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> Yes, but I need input. Tell me some ideas and I'll try to 
>> implement them. So you could just test new features in the 
>> real world, instead of just talking about them theoretically.
>> And it is not 'waste of time'. Me and my fellow students use D 
>> as early as the second Semester for almost all university 
>> projects. But as '(pre) compiler' we use Remus just because we 
>> miss some features, such as not-null references, since the 
>> first week. And it's a damn good exercise to understand, how a 
>> compiler works. :)
>
> I can see the value in testing ideas out in practice. I cannot 
> see C++ style namespaces being all that useful given that there 
> are much better alternatives already available, non-nullable 
> references and AST macros would be very nice to try out. Wish 
> we had these features in the real D right now.
>
> --rt

I like them. But if so many people against them, I can implement 
a voting to deprecate this feature. Not-null references are 
already available.