How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler?

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Wed May 26 17:37:18 UTC 2021


On 27/05/2021 5:28 AM, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 01:38:59 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've found that exploration and navigation of DMD 
>> code becomes much more manageable with an editor that supports "goto 
>> definition"--ideally with history, so you can jump backwards too.
> 
> That's if you've got a starting point in the source code, then yeah it 
> is a lot better (thx to all who did work on LSP related projects for D), 
> however it won't help when you try to find some functionality which you 
> don't know in what module is.

There is a file list (somewhere, I'm not looking for it) that tells you 
what is what. But a proper directory structure + good header comments 
can do this even better :D


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