The D Scripting Language

[Leandro Lucarella]

By the way, I found a bug that I think is quite serious if DMD wants to
hit the scripting languages world:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5243

Copied for convenience:

dmd -run potentially removes user files

See this example:

$ mkdir x
$ echo 'void main() {}' > x/test.d
$ echo "my very important data that shouldn't be ereased" > test
$ ls test
test
$ cat test
my very important data that shouldn't be ereased
$ dmd -run x/test.d
$ ls test
ls: cannot access test: No such file or directory
$ cat test
cat: test: No such file or directory

I think this is a very serious bug. It's really unexpected that DMD
removes the test file (I can understand why it happens, but it
shouldn't). test.d being in another directory is just to point how much
surprising could be that running a "script" in an unrelated directory
removes files in the current directory.

If DMD wants to put D in the scripting world, this should be fixed ASAP,
as no scripting language EVER will remove your files unexpectedly.

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