D as A Better C?

[Chris]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 16:30:29 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/12/14, 7:40 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> This would certainly be a useful feature to have when porting, 
>> and
>> Walter clearly uses it himself.  Assuming this can be done 
>> with minimal
>> work, I'd say make it a DMD thing rather than a D thing in 
>> general.
>> Like -profile.  And add a switch to enable it in the front-end 
>> if
>> possible.  Then DMD (and potentially the other compilers) will 
>> have the
>> feature in case anyone finds it useful and we can move on.  
>> Call it
>> -minimal.
>>
>> I have a feeling we've already spent more time talking about 
>> this than
>> Walter would have spent implementing it anyway, so it's 
>> already taking
>> time away from other things.  Let's just give it a nod and 
>> move on.
>
> I convinced Walter of my view on this, so he won't work on it. 
> I trust that at least between the two of us we can focus on 
> working on what matters most first.
>
> Andrei

But keep -minimal in mind. A good idea, both the concept and the 
flag name.