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== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisprog at gmail.com)'s article
> On Saturday 17 July 2010 23:01:28 strtr wrote:
> > >
> > > Cheated? I thought that you were trying to figure out why the code wasn't
> > > d oing
> > > what you expected it to be doing. So, of course I ran it.
> > > Though, it's more likely that I have an x86 emulator in my brain which
> > > can run
> > > dmd than that I have a D emulator in my brain if I figured this out in my
> > > h ead,
> > > since I gave you the exact error message that dmd does.
> > > - Jonathan M Davis
> >
> > I don't find it more likely that you have a x86 emulator in your brain
> > which then ran dmd to compile some code.
> > I might even think that almost impossible ;P
> > If you knew the compiler well enough you might be capable of giving that
> > error message with only the extra knowledge of where your files recite and
> > version and OS infos.
> Well, since both are pretty much impossible, I think that it's a moot point.
> I
> can believe that someone would know the compiler well enough to know what it was
> going to do in most situations and that they would have some idea as to what the
> error message would be, but if you want them to be at all precise, that just
> takes too much detail for anyone to remember. If they could do that, they'd be
> an insanely good programmer.
> - Jonathan M Davis

The error only needed to be good enough for me to believe it to be generated by a
linux compiler ;)
I can probably give you satisfying errors for my program. Sure, it is only a
fraction of dmd but then again, I'm only a mediocre programmer.