DMD 0.161 release

[Bruno Medeiros]

Oskar Linde wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:e7832r$g4h$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>> Mostly bug fixes.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>>
>>> Oh man, those delegate literals look like it would be very possible 
>>> to make interesting "pseudo-structures," that is, fake language 
>>> constructs.  So if you were to define a function as
>>>
>>> void func(void delegate() dg);
>>>
>>> That is, the last parameter is a void delegate(), it would be an 
>>> interesting bit of syntactic sugar to be able to write
>>>
>>> func
>>> {
>>>     writefln("foo");
>>> }
>>>
>>> Not sure what utility this would present, but hey! 
>>
>> There was some thought about doing that, but I'm not so sure it 
>> wouldn't be more confusing than useful.
> 
> With the new delegate syntax, and a very simple function one can finally 
> replace the annoying and common case where a for-loop until now still 
> has to be used:
> 
> void repeat(Int,Delegate)(Int n, Delegate d) {
>     static assert(is(Int:int),"Argument 1 to repeat must be int");
>     for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
>         d();
> }
> 
> The implementation could also contain:
> static if (NumberOfArgs!(Delegate) == 1)
>   d(i);
> 
> The use is:
> 
> repeat(10, { something(); });
> 
> And the multi-line version becomes:
> 
> repeat(10, {
>   something();
>   somethingElse();
> });
> 
> Which at least makes me wish for Jarretts suggested short form:
> 
> repeat(10) {
>   something();
>   somethingElse();
> }
> 
> But the implications of having such power is almost scary... :)
> 
> /Oskar

That's too much power for us puny mortals! :P

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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