[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 9 01:17:17 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 07:42:40 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I use DCD, and *for the most part* it does a reasonable job of 
> finding the definition. It is not, however, something that 
> excuses a language feature that makes life more difficult.
>
> Ambiguity over location of definition is something that 
> promotes bugs. The technical problem of finding the definition 
> is the least important aspect of the problem.

Not sure what you compare it to. Even finding declaration was 
never an easy job in C, and definition can be anywhere in the 
source tree. In D symbols are at least tied to modules, so you 
can look only in the respective module, this never worked for C 
though.


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