Milestone - DMD front end is now 100% D!

Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 14 21:53:42 PST 2016


On Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 05:03:20 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/14/2016 7:21 PM, Joakim wrote:
>> How far do you plan to go in bringing D idioms to the compiler 
>> itself?  A simple
>> grep shows 3 C-style `for` loops in the frontend for every D 
>> `foreach`.  Do you
>> plan on using ranges and algorithms, which likely means 
>> relying on Phobos at
>> some point?  Any plans to turn on the GC someday?  Please 
>> enlighten us on your
>> roadmap for how far you want to take the D conversion process.
>
> I plan to go eventually all the way. But it really needs to be 
> 100% D first.

Please, no :-(
Mir needs betterC DMD FE



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