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[Jason House]

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Ary Borenszweig<ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> >> This compiles and runs in D2:
> >>
> >> --
> >> import std.stdio;
> >>
> >> auto foo() {
> >>    return 1;
> >> }
> >>
> >> void main() {
> >>    writefln("%s", foo());
> >> }
> >> --
> >>
> >> Since when a non-templated function can have its return type deduced? :)
> > 
> > Cool.  I'm testing this and it really does seem to be non-templated.
> > So of course, the first thing I tried was this:
> > 
> > class A
> > {
> >     auto foo() { return 0; }
> > }
> > 
> > class B : A
> > {
> >     auto foo() { return 5; }
> > }
> > 
> > but DMD crashes.  :P
> 
> Now that it also works in Descent I can see it's because function 
> overloading is treated before function return type inference, and the 
> return types for the functions at those moments are null...

When can we look forward to Descent for D2? :)

Also, what kind of porting issues did you have? How could it be made simpler? I'm assuming that whatever makes your work easier also helps others customizing their applications for D2.