[Bug 77] New: After a compile error occurs, all template instances fail

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Fri Mar 31 17:58:37 PST 2006


d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
> And with a real project, thousands of lines of incorrect error messages can be
> generated by a single typo! In fact, I now encounter this bug every time I get
> any error message at all. I'd rank it as the most annoying bug in DMD. I
> consider this severity=major -- I've had to temporarily abandon some of my
> metaprogramming work because of it.

I actually put this in at your suggestion - you suggested that once 
templates had an error, it was pointless to continue trying to expand 
them because of a blizzard of cascading errors. I can change it so it 
just quits on first template error?



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