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Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 13:11:17 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 19:44:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-06-02 20:28, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> - requires standard (and stable!) AST format
>
> Is that a negative point? BTW, the compiler doesn't necessarily 
> need to use the same API for the AST internally as exposed 
> externally.

Yes, considering current official stance on breaking changes that 
is huge negative point. We are rather far from being able to tell 
what good stable AST format could be be in the long run.

Maintaining two different formats is a way to address that but I 
feel that effort required goes beyond the realm of realistic at 
that point.


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