Foreach Closures?

[Brad Anderson]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Ary Manzana <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:

> On 4/9/12 10:58 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> On 2012-04-09 15:19, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> OMG, DO WANT! :P
>>> Who wrote this? I wonder if they'd be interested in adapting it to
>>> VisualD + MonoDevelop?
>>>
>>
>> That would be Ary Manzana. I think one of the reasons why he stopped
>> working on this was that he ported the DMD frontend to Java and it's
>> just a pain to stay updated with DMD.
>>
>
> Yes, it was a pain. I can't understand how I did it. Aaaah... the times
> when one was young. :-P
>
> Robert Fraser also helped a lot with porting, doing some refactorings and
> many other cool stuff. I don't remember seeing a message of him in this
> newsgroup for a long time now...
>
>
>  This comes back to us again, again and again. We _badly need_ a compiler
>> that is usable as a library. Preferably with a stable API which it
>> possible to create bindings for other languages. For that compiler to be
>> stay up to date it needs to be the reference implementation, i.e. the
>> one that Walter works on.
>>
>> Also Walter won't just drop DMD and replace it with something else or
>> start a major refactoring process on the existing code base.
>>
>
> Yes, D definitely needs that. The Eclipse plugin could just use bindings
> to the D compiler API with JNI.
>
> In fact, I think Walter and company should stop working on the current DMD
> codebase and start all over again. The code, as I see it, is a big mess.
> Now that the spec is more or less "clear" and not many new features are
> added, I think this is the time to do it.
>
> Actually, nobody has to wait Walter. The community could just start
> writing a D compiler in D, host it in github and work with pull requests...
> something like what Rubinius has done with Ruby.
>

It's already been started.  SDC: https://github.com/bhelyer/SDC

Regards,
Brad Anderson


>
> Though you might think it'll be harder to catch up with language changes,
> if the code has a better design I think introducing new changes should be
> much easier than in DMD's current codebase.
>
>
>  BTW, Descent has a compile time debugger as well, if I recall correctly.
>>
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure how well that works.
>
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