An old topic (pun intended)

[Ali Çehreli]

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:09:46 +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:

> On 10/13/2011 07:14 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:18:46 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> IIRC, old was rejected because it added extra complication for little
>>> value.
>>
>> Yes, there were technical difficulties in making the stack frame at the
>> call point available to the stack frame at the exit point.
>>
>>
> Why would that be required?

I am not sure myself. I find this thread where Andrei says "Walter tried 
to implement that but it turned out to be very difficult implementation-
wise":

  http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/
Communicating_between_in_and_out_contracts_98252.html

Ali