version and debug statements

[Kyle Furlong]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 23:41:09 +1000, Bruno Medeiros 
> <brunodomedeirosATgmail at SPAM.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On the other hand, it happens that here that the "each do a particular 
>> job well" has something to be said: there is much overlap in the jobs 
>> of both utils (the compiler and build), such in fact that I think 
>> their jobs are not that different.
> 
> However, with the next release of Build the differences will be much 
> more pronounced. I've completed the coding for v3.0 of Build and I'm 
> just tidying up the docs this weekend. The main new feature, which btw 
> makes it diverge from DMD, is a macro processor. At this stage its only 
> a text replacement feature but in subsequent releases it will have a 
> fully functional macro processor included (which is already designed and 
> prototyped).
> 
> Just as an example, it can now transform things such as
>   "for i = 1 to 100 do"
> to
>   "for(int i = 1; i <= 100; i++){"
> 
> --Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia

I thought this sort of thing was generally decided to be A Bad Thing™

-- 
Kyle Furlong // Physics Undergrad, UCSB

"D is going wherever the D community wants it to go." - Walter Bright