Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:52:12 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> I don't think it's an either-or situation. For a variety of reasons,  
> some organizations want separate control of the "declaration" and  
> "definition" files. Inability to do so is a common criticism leveled  
> against Java and one of the reasons for the proliferation of XML  
> configuration files and dynamic loading in that language.

Now I'm curious, what are those reasons? Can we improve .di generation to  
accommodate everyone, even if we'd need to add attributes or pragmas to  
the language or frontend?

It just seems to me like this path kills two birds with one stone, and is  
less work overall than doing both.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net