dsq-1: open-source software synthesizer

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Sun Mar 29 10:30:38 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 17:24:53 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 17:02:54 UTC, D. Martinez wrote:
>> 2. The function attributes: @nogc nothrow. These relate to my 
>> realtime audio thread because I want neither of these things 
>> to occur; my thread runs unmanaged by the D runtime and I 
>> appreciate the static checking. But I don't use it: why?
>> I use writefln a lot to debug my implementations, which is 
>> incompatible with either assumption. I wish it were possible 
>> to bypass @nogc nothrow in debug mode, only to emit a warning. 
>> To change dozens of functions to set @nogc on/off depending on 
>> usage context is not practical. I hope D can provide a better 
>> solution, than systematic use of sed scripts. :)
>
> Hmm, this sounds like it might be a bug or design flaw.  
> "debug" is supposed to provide an escape hatch from even pure 
> functions: I don't see why it wouldn't provide the same for 
> @nogc and nothrow.  At the very least, we should have a 
> @nogc/nothrow alternative to writefln to allow such simple 
> debugging.

import core.stdc.stdio : printf;


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