An Anti-Big Feature Request

[Dan]

jcc7 Wrote:
> I worked on reducing the error to a small example, and I filed a related bug:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1738
> 
> In the process of reducing the error, I guess I lost some of the context for the
> error, but I think it seems to be related to the assignment of FALSE in structure.d:
> #   FALSE = { b:false, type:TYPE.BOOLEAN, access:ACCESS.READ },

Sweet, thanks JCC.  : )  I can code okay I think, but I'm really inept when it comes to managing open source projects.  I haven't filed a bug report before, and I still have troubles with SVN.

I was ignoring the bug and working on porting to DMD 2.000 (which was released earlier than 1.020 and doesn't seem to have the bug that prevents compilation)

> 
> Note that I'm not defending that DMD rejects your code. My bug report only gives
> an example of an error message that should include a line number. I hope this
> helps, but it looks like the compiler is malfunctioning in a couple of ways when
> it tries to process your code. I only identified one of the malfunctions (lack of
> a line number).

I figured the way I wrote that might strain a few things.  17kb of code only has 4 semicolons, and Value struct is pretty demanding on a few features.  The function library also maps most things into phobos so I suppose it's bound to happen.

> 
> By the way, to come up with the reduced example, I basically used the method
> described at:
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/BugReports

Thanks.