version: multiple conditions

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 18 13:04:05 PDT 2015


On 17/06/15 10:03, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given the direction D2 has taken since D1, I'd say that I'm starting to
> agree with you that powerful symbolic programming would be the better
> deal overall.
>
> But it would take a major restructuring:
>
> 1. a simpler more orthogonal core language to cut down on the special
> casing when doing AST manipulations
>
> 2. a clean separation between library and application code (that way you
> can limit AST hacks to libraries tie library versions to language versions.
>
> So it won't happen… since you would then have essentially need a new
> language?

It will most likely not happen. Although, I guess you could just slap it 
on, but it would not be an ideal solution.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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