D2 is really that stable as it is claimed to be?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Sep 24 13:41:21 PDT 2013


On 9/23/2013 12:07 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 9/23/13, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>> 1) One of them is the "aka", that is showing both the name of
>> aliases and the aliased types/values:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5004
>
> I have a partial implementation of this in one of my branches, but
> IIRC it was difficult do cover all cases since the compiler internally
> inserts a bunch of aliases as well. Those could be marked that they're
> internal, so that's fixable. Another issue I ran into is that
> diagnostics are called after the retrieval of the aliased-to type,
> which basically means by the time the compiler issues errors the alias
> declaration is gone, the compiler only works on the target symbol. I
> had a workaround for this, but it's going to take more work to get
> done.
>

I worry that this is too complicated to be worthwhile.


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