Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Don]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> grauzone wrote:
>>>> Incidentally, here, or in D.learn, somebody was asking for symbolic 
>>>> derivation with D templates. I think one of the excercises in SICP 
>>>> was to write a lisp snippet that did just that.
>>>>
>>>> Awesome stuff, through and through.
>>>
>>> An awesome way to hit compiler bugs, huh?
>>>
>>> Well sorry, but it's really like that: programming with D is awesome, 
>>> until you hit problems like ICEs.
>>
>> I agree that it's a problem, which is why the latest compiler release 
>> got rid of 40% of the remaining segfault and ICE bugs (including the 
>> three most commonly encountered). You should find a significant 
>> improvement now.
>>
>> I have patches for many of the remaining bugs. Unfortunately there are 
>> 5 ICE bugs in bugzilla with no test cases, which means they can't be 
>> fixed.
> 
> Your work is astounding, amazing, and heartening. Thank you.

Thanks!
It's a fit of rage, actually. I hit one compiler segfault too many, and 
turned violent. After a couple more, I'll probably be calmed down enough 
to return to library development. <g>

BTW, only about half the bugs fixed in the last release were from me 
(not all my patches were correct).