DMD 1.039 and 2.023 releases

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>>
>> Bill Baxter:
>>>
>>> To me it's hard to see those variable declarations as being anything
>>> other than scoped to the blocks they're in.
>>> So all I'm saying is if we could have some different delimiters for
>>> non-scope blocks then it might be nice, and make it easier to see when
>>> scopes are ending and when they are not.
>>
>> *Now* I understand, and I see your point.
>> It's the usual problem: ASCII doesn't have enough ways to represent
>> containers and delimiters :-)
>>
>> So if this is your original code (I have improved your indentations and
>> improved readability a little):
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I don't think lot of people will appreciate those.
>> So the lack of different block delimiters may make this problem have no
>> better solution.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> in C# they use the same syntax as the c pre-processor for conditional
> compilation and such even though C# doesn't have a pre-processor and the
> syntax is interpreted by the compiler. the above would be something like:
>
>  void doSomething(T)(int i) {
>      if (i == 0) {
>          #if (is(T == A))
>              A.SomeAlias x;
>          #elif (is(T == B))
>              B.SubType x;
>          #else
>              T x;
>          #endif
>
>          x = ... whatever
>     }
>     else
>          int y = x;
>  }
>
> D can always revert to this kind of syntax for compile time code.


I kinda like that, actually, but I doubt it'll be very popular around here.

--bb