Descent 0.5.4 released

[Ary Borenszweig]

Bill Baxter escribió:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>
>> Here's the video!
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhrFQVnsrY
>>
>> :-)
>>
> 
> By the way, in the vid you use a plain int param in your opApply
> delegate, instead of "ref int".  I think this will not work.  At least
> I seem to remember finding that opApply doesn't work unless I make all
> the delegate's arguments ref.
> 
> I think some of that came from an auto-complete code template, so if
> the code template doesn't include the 'ref' it should, as a hint to
> the programmer.

I'll correct that, then.

> 
> Another question -- I was wondering what it does for CTFE functions.
> I'm guessing it evaluates them and spits out the result.  If so that
> could be very very helpful.  Especially for code-building CTFE mixins.
>  I don't think you had an example like that in the vid.

It does! See the first part of the video, when I do:

int x = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + someFunc(5);

and it shows:

int x = 25;

It just evaluated someFunc. :-)

> 
> This compile time view could be a great debugging and learning aid for
> D.  I think it's quite exciting.  I wonder if someone can get it
> working on something like http://paste.dprogramming.com/

You mean, web? The java code can be used in the backend for that with 
little modification, I think that's quite possible.

> 
> --bb