DIP30, delegates more destruction for your pleasure

[Dmitry Olshansky]

14-Mar-2013 09:59, Maxim Fomin пишет:
> On Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 05:29:25 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 05:12:51 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>>> ABI, at least partly, is and should be part of the spec. Otherwise it
>>> has some of the C++ problems. And the point was not about ABI in a
>>> sense of adding piece of information to chapter in dlang.org, but
>>> about implementing compiler. I am not enthusiastic about most DIPs
>>> presented recently because 1) without Walter and Andrei approval 2)
>>> without somebody willing to implement it, DIP turns to be a paper
>>> intellect exercise and corresponding ideas defence in the forum.
>>>
>>
>> Timon Gehr and I are working on compiler. This isn't intellectual
>> masturbation.
>
> And without significant usage it is a coding exercise or NIH syndrome.
> What is good in the compiler (brand new frontend?) relative to
> gdc/ldc/dmd? Why somebody would switch to it?

Being fed up with 'the one and only' and 'the implementation is the 
reference' principle?

The more compilers we have - the better defined language standard we 
get. And the latter is a very good thing in its own right.


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky