Unconditional compilation?

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Mar 9 04:26:20 PDT 2008


John C wrote:
> Code in version blocks must be syntactically correct even if the 
> condition is not met and the code isn't compiled - ie, the compiler 
> still parses the code. But this makes writing libraries that compile 
> with both D1 and D2 difficult - I want to add features for D2 users 
> without having to distribute a separate version of the library.
> 
> version(D_Version2) {
>   struct SomeStruct {
> 
>     // D2 copy ctor
>     this(this) {}
> 
>   }
> }
> 
> D1 chokes on that, which is expected behaviour according to the spec. 
> But how do I get the same behaviour as #if and #else - ie, tell the 
> compiler to completely ignore anything if some condition is not met?

String mixin.  Not pretty, but it works.

--bb


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