D front end implementation

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 17.11.2016 22:41, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 November 2016 at 21:39:15 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 17.11.2016 03:52, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 09:11:50 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I want to get there eventually. :)
>>>> Unfortunately I haven't had a lot of time to spend on this lately.
>>>> Also, DMD 2.060 has quite many annoying bugs that slow down
>>>> development.
>>>
>>> Sounds to me like you should rewrite the compiler a little to get it
>>> working under 2.07x.
>>>
>>
>> "A little" is probably not enough.
>
> I'm interested to know what the big differences were that make updating
> particularly hard?

The forward reference bugs are different.