[dmd-internals] Type-checked arrays!

[Walter Bright]

On 7/6/2011 4:09 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> Le 2011-07-05 à 20:15, Walter Bright a écrit :
>
>> On 7/5/2011 4:46 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> Well, now that I know I can change it to a template.
>>>
>>> When I asked a mid-June on this list, I did not get an answer. I decided to go take the most conservative route and not use any C++ feature not already in use elsewhere in the code.
>>>
>>> If you say it's okay to use templates then I'll make the change, it's no big deal. I agree it'd be a little cleaner that way, although with typedefs it won't change things much.
>> I originally did not use templates because g++ at the time did a terrible job with them. This has gotten much better now.
> That's useful to know.
>
> Done, now using a template:
>
> 	typedef Array<struct Expression>  Expressions;
>
> <https://github.com/michelf/dmd/compare/master...type-checked-arrays>
>
> Ok, so now I'd like to know how long can I expect it might take before integrating in mainline? It's important because this patch is very costly to maintain, as almost every commit I merge into from mainline causes conflicts I must resolve manually.
>
> Also, it's been tested only on OS X. It's not easy for me to work on other platforms, so I guess I'd need someone else to try to compile it on Linux and Windows and fix the type-checking errors for the platform specific parts. Anyone wants to help?
>

It'll have to wait until after this release is done. Also, please do it as a 
pull request!