[dmd-beta] New D2 2.057 beta

David Simcha dsimcha at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 06:45:37 PST 2011


On 12/8/2011 1:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> From: "David Simcha" <dsimcha at gmail.com>
>> On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
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>> The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but 
>> now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a 
>> DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned 
>> my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you 
>> don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains 
>> of template instantiations.
>
> Yup, DustMite is fantastic. It deserves to be a headling feature of D. 
> It does sound intimidating at first, but then you read the docs and 
> find it's dead simple to use.
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On looking at this further, I can see how it worked in the first place.  
Dustmite dropped the ball because it reproduced the error, but for the 
wrong reason.  Maybe it is a regression.  I'll try harder to reproduce 
it tonight.


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