dmd 2.063 beta 5

[Rory McGuire]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 15:15:18 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
>
>> b) it requires to know your argument at compile-time. What if you packet
>>> construction is based on some text configuration file?
>>>
>>>
>> :) I'm sure we could think of something wrong with any part of the
>> language
>> if we really wanted to.
>>
>
> Well, you see, I am not imagining it. Had to write a barebone traffic
> generation tool in C several months ago for project. It did almost exactly
> that, only with no help support from type system, of course.
>

Hence the smile. It is a valid case as are most valid cases :) but We're
discussing which of the two happens more often. I think this is rare enough
to type an extra "!". In Go they would probably make it illegal, simply
because its confusing for most cases.
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