SDC & ddmd

[Somedude]

Le 10/12/2011 09:52, Piotr Szturmaj a écrit :
> Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 10 December 2011 07:54, Piotr Szturmaj<bncrbme at jadamspam.pl>  wrote:
>>> Bernard Helyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On the other side all bug fixes are also passed on to all compilers.
>>> Rewriting entire frontend would certainly introduce another set of bugs.
>>
>> Sure, but that is not an excuse to discourage such development (and we
>> could certainly go turtles all the way down with this argument, as all
>> bugs created are passed on to all compilers too!)
> 
> Yes, that was Bernard's argument. :)
> 
> I'm not against anything and I wish the best for this project. :)
> However, care must be taken to ensure that compilers are compatible. The
> number of bugs in DMD bugzilla reminds me how hard it is to implement
> such compiler.

It also shows that too few people work on the front-end, no matter how
good they are (and I believe Walter undoubtly is one of the world's best
compiler experts).