Mac OSX installer for dmd

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Aug 3 07:20:45 PDT 2010


Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2010-08-03 08:39, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Walter, I suggest you to stop right now to say how much good D module
>>> system is and how much good your design is, etc, and to start looking
>>> for the problems/holes instead. In my language there is a proverb that
>>> says something like "Who praises himself a lot, covers himself with
>>> broth" or something similar ^_^ Keep looking for the *design* problems
>>> of the D module system, and try to fix them, instead of saying several
>>> times how much good D module system is.
>>
>> I agree with the spirit. Getting in the state we unconditionally believe
>> we got it right essentially prevents progress in the matter by halting
>> the brain.
>>
>> That being said, I recall you mentioned a couple of times in the past
>> that D's modules have problems. Whenever you substantiated those claims,
>> I found the arguments insufficient and ended up forgetting them. Are
>> there some bugzilla reports (at the risk of repeating the same question)?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> How about this one: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3108

Thanks. I voted it up! A cursory reading suggests that neither of those 
are matters of principles, only implementation issues. Is that right?

Andrei


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