D should disallow forward references

[Stewart Gordon]

grauzone wrote:
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> It's not like this is really going to be fixed.

Your point?

> And other compilers don't throw up either, when you present them code 
> with complex structure. Just in dmd, it seems to dependent from the 
> internal structure of the compiler, *if* or *how* something works. The 
> worst thing is, Walter doesn't seem to care...

Walter is just one person working on just one implementation of D.  Why 
should the whole language revolve around this one implementation?

> Actually, it's much simpler to solve forward reference and cyclic 
> dependency issues in C than in D. Ah, the power of simplicity.

Have you written a compiler for a superset of C in which arbitrary 
forward references are allowed?  How did you do with overcoming the 
difficulty that is C's context-sensitive grammar?

Stewart.