Issue 3789 and some interesting pull requests

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-08 05:03, bearophile wrote:
> Maybe Kenji and others have fixed one important bug:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3789
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> On GitHub there are many open pull requests for dmd, and some of them
> look quite interesting (even if some of them probably need to be improved):
>
> This allows to support a[$-1, 2..$], it's useful to implement a good
> vector library in D:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/443
>
> To improve the type merging in array literals:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/684
>
> __ctfeWrite and __ctfeWriteln, I'm asking for a better compile time
> printing since years:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/692
>
> Taking the address of a deprecated function should trigger a deprecated
> message, etc:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1064
>
> This is for a small but handy change in D that allows to write "new
> C().foo();" instead of "(new C()).foo();".
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1111

This one would be really good for DWT.

> Support for T() syntax for build-in types. This avoids to use an ugly
> cast() in some cases:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1356
>
> Overloading template and non-template functions:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1409
>
> With value range propagation we can disable some array bound tests:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1493
>
> To improve the use of template functions in different modules:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1660
>
> Recursive build for the compiler:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1861
>
> To make D more flexible, allowing the idea of a library-defined dup:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1943

That's quite a nice bunch of enhancements in the pipeline.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg