Proposed improvements to the separate compilation model

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/23/11 6:02 PM, so wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:47:32 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> and then either remove the .tmp if identical or rename it forcefully
>> to filename.di if different. That's a classic in code generation tools.
>
> Not sure i got it right but how renaming it forcefully would solve this?
> This must be two separate process for the compiler, issuing an error and
> if it was intended then the .di file must be generated.

There'd be an error if the file were read-only.

Andrei