CTFE Status

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 20:51:01 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 20:15:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 10, 2016 18:40:03 Stefan Koch via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 01:17:48 UTC, Stefan Koch 
>>> wrote:
>>> > After the bad news now a bit of good news.
>>> > I just finished the strCat algorithm;
>>> >
>>> > [...]
>>>
>>> As expected this code is slightly wrong and will fail on the
>>> offset == 3 case.
>>> It will need a little bit of tinkering until it's ready to go 
>>> :)
>>
>> And aren't you glad that you have all of these unit tests to 
>> verify that what you're working works properly? They don't 
>> necessarily catch everything, but it would be _way_ worse to 
>> completely replace something like this without them. :)
>>
>> The way that D promotes unit testing is definitely one of its 
>> strong points.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> I love compile-time unitests.
> Who does not like them ?
>
> The interpret3.d test in the compiler acceptance testsuite is 
> almost a work of art.
> After you pass that one you can be pretty sure to have a 
> complainant d compiler.
>
> The current Status of stringCat can be found here :
> https://gist.github.com/UplinkCoder/fed000f5ca41ad3d65d59a7a63d5ef6f

StringConcat works and will be translated into bytecode soon.
I am going to get a few big things done during next week.
Namely support for dynamic arrays.
At least I hope so :) You never know what bugs might rain on your 
programming parade.