A little Py Vs C++

[Timon Gehr]

On 11/02/2012 09:07 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
>> anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> As for Manu's request
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
>>
>> I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
>> way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
>
> This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
> fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
> feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
> they shouldn't have been implemented.


SIMD support is necessary and the fix for 8108 is very simple. If the 
way default arguments work shall be improved though, it would add 
additional ways that the compiler can screw up conditional compilation.

> Although I think something like
> AST macros could possible solve issue 8108 and a whole bunch of other
> features, a few already present in the language.
>

A sufficiently well/badly designed macro feature can potentially replace 
most other language features.