DMD 1.005 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:eq91hs$fvm$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Fixes many bugs, some serious.
>>
>> Some new goodies.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.005.zip
> 
> I am amazed at the mixin/import features.  The ability we have to 
> arbitrarily generate code at runtime is.. something I never would have 
> imagined would come until D2.0.

At compile time you mean.

> I've been thinking about it, though, and I'm not sure if it's 100% the best 
> way to do it.  The major advantage, of course, is that it doesn't introduce 
> tons of new syntax for building up code.  However, I'm not sure I really 
> like the idea of building up strings either.  It seems.. preprocessor-y.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I'm still giddy with the prospects of this new feature. 
> But something about it just seems off. 

The ability to transform true code trees will come with D's macro 
abilities. But that's a few months ahead at least.


Andrei