Foreach Closures?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Apr 9 23:36:25 PDT 2012


On 2012-04-10 04:21, Ary Manzana wrote:

> 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.

I think so as well.

> 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.
>
> 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.

Yeah, it will be easier to add changes if the compiler has a better 
design, but you still need to catch up with the reference implementation.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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