Super-dee-duper D features (possible resolution?)

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Mon Feb 12 12:32:20 PST 2007


kris wrote:
> Of course, the trick would be to find a reasonable tripping point where 
> the abuse-potential starts to require some serious respect; like the 
> vehicle noted above. However, it could be done; perhaps with a 'level'? 
> I understand you're not crazy about switches and so on, but please 
> consider it ... it could potentially be responsible for alleviating 
> adoption fears. That's a pretty darned powerful switch.

I don't believe such a switch belongs in the compiler itself. I think it 
belongs in a 3rd party tool, where it can be customized to match the 
coding standards of the organization.

That's why D is designed to be easy to parse - it makes it practical to 
build such custom tools.



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