OpenBSD port of dmd?
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Mar 18 12:30:51 PDT 2012
On 3/18/2012 11:28 AM, Tove wrote:
> It should be possible to eat the cake and still have it... even if warnings
> normally are frowned upon(with good reason), using warnings for this would allow
> the benefits from both "camps"...
>
> It would allow a painless "prototype porting" for new operating systems which
> are similar, yet... even if it does work, at a later point one would still have
> to go through all the version statements and either silencing the warning, or
> selecting the optimized path.
I know that we've all been trained to avoid copypasta, and have an instinctive
"ick" factor when seeing it.
But it really is not painful to do a little copypasta for the system versions,
nor does there need to be any new language features for this.
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