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[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Craig Black" <cblack at ara.com> wrote in message 
news:fosg79$1vk$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Simen Haugen" <simen at norstat.no> wrote in message 
> news:fosaio$2gk2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> dmd crashes with stack overflow, and I finally figured out the problem : 
>> Forward references...
>>
>> It's certainly not the first time I've hit these bugs (or a bunch of 
>> other bugs - all known), and it's often quite hell to work around.
>>
>> I really like D, and have used it a lot recently, but all the bugs are 
>> getting on my nerves. My first wish for d is to get a stable compiler. I 
>> think this is a lot more important than working on d2
>>
>> Just needed to get some frustration out before I start refactoring...
>
> Sorry about your bad experiences with compiler bugs.  I do think forward 
> reference bugs are important to fix.  However, I personally am more 
> excited about D 2.0 than ever.  Walter is now working on the very features 
> are necessary for me to port my code to D.  I tried porting my code a 
> while back and ran into a brick wall.  Without more ctor/dtors and copy 
> semantics for structs, I will have to take a huge performance hit, and 
> this is unacceptable.  Thus, the features he is working on now are on the 
> top of my priority list, even higher than the annoying forward references 
> bug.  My case may be atypical though.

For those of us who are actually using D1 as it is now, though, these kind 
of (*cough*inexcusable!*cough*) bugs really put a damper on things.