D should disallow forward references

[Walter Bright]

language_fan wrote:
> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:42:35 +0000, BCS thusly wrote:
> 
>> Hello Leandro,
>>
>>>> I have a copy of Walter's internal DMD test suite, so I could actually
>>>>
>>> What was the reason not to release the test suite? Copyright?
>>>
>>>
>> bingo. The code comes from all kinds of palaces and IIRC Walter doesn't
>> want to track down the authors of every little bit of code.
> 
> The law might be different in your country (the ones in charge of the US 
> and A are known to suffer from retardness - go go SCO), but at least here 
> and many other countries if the original code snippets are small enough, 
> they fall outside the scope of copyright. Walter however, as an author of 
> the compilation of snippets, has copyright to the collection.

I think the rule is 10 lines of code.