Bug reports [Was: Re: About Andrei's interview, part 3]

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
>I just hope you can be realistic about how much can be done about them in the short term.<

Most of of my bugzilla entries are normal bugs, suggestions for improved error messages and diagnostic, Phobos bugs, enhancement requests, _additive_ changes, etc, that don't require any D spec/design change.

Only a small percentage of them are "interesting" little not-additive (breaking) changes for D.


The ones that I have listed some time ago:

Syntax & semantics for array assigns
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3971

[module system] Tiding up the imports
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3819

Signed lengths (and other built-in values)
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3843

[missing error] Array literal length doesn't match
Array literal assign to array of different length
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3849
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3948

opCast(bool) in classes is bug-prone
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3926

Require opEquals/opCmp in a class the defines toHash
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3844

automatic joining of adjacent strings is bad
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3827

pure/nothrow functions/delegates are a subtype of the nonpure/throw ones
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3833

const arguments/instance attributes in conditions/invariants
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3856

bool opEquals() for structs instead of int opEquals()
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3967

byte ==> sbyte
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3936
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3850

A bug-prone situation with AAs
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3825

Arguments and attributes with the same name
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3878

More useful and more clean 'is'
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3981

-----------------------

Few more added in the meantime:

Deferencing a dynamic array as pointer
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3990

Enum equality to an int
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3999

Function pointer/delegate covariance
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4000

Tidier management of static variables in pure functions
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4031

To avoid struct ctor/opCall conflicts
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4053

Steps toward a static foreach
(just the first point is enough for now)
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4085

Class method hidden by another one warning
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4216

x.typeof syntax
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4272

Deprecate automatic case fallthrough
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4349

Require explicit braces when 'else' is ambiguous
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4375

Catch wrong argument<->attribute assignments in methods
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4407

Improving the compiler 'in' associative array can return just a bool
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4475
"in" operator for AAs in SafeD code
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4625

Contravariance problem
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4511

Tidier function types
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4530

Non-null class references/pointers
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4571

Compiler option to port C code or disallow some duplicated C syntax
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4580

Lambdas default arguments problems
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4664

Troubles with 'auto ref'
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4668

Built struct is callable without opCall
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4678

Ambiguously designed array syntax
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4703

Possible bugs caused by dynamic arrays in boolean evaluation context
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4733

Bye,
bearophile