Reimplementing the bulk of std.meta iteratively

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 1 04:16:29 UTC 2020


On 9/29/2020 12:30 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I think there's some disconnect here -- AAs as a language feature are a 
> resounding success. They way they are implemented in the language is not. I 
> wouldn't call it a failure, but it definitely is not as useful as a fully 
> supported library type could be.

Yes, that is a better statement of my opinion on it.

The implementation's problems are, of course, because D's AAs were designed 
before there were templates and before there was const and immutable.



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list