Real World usage of D, Today (was Re: challenge #2: implement the varargs_reduce metafunction)

[Bill Baxter]

kris wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> kris wrote:
>>
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>>>
>>>> That being said, my view on what should be fixed in D is a bit 
>>>> different. For example, as I said, one of my main foci is putting a 
>>>> lead sarcophagus around "inout" before its radioactive waste affects 
>>>> too much code that will become broken later. Also, implicit 
>>>> conversion rules will change, and again I want to get that in ASAP 
>>>> so not too much code suffers. And so on.
>>>
>>>
>>> Aye, and that is certainly appreciated. Some of the items you've 
>>> mentioned recently have long been festering sores for many. It'll 
>>> certainly be refreshing to see some attention focused upon those.
>>>
>>> Regarding implicit conversion rules -- are you including the "issues" 
>>> currently surrounding signature-matching when using constants?
>>
>>
>> Could you give more detail?
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Yep -- will get back to you with examples (probably tomorrow)


Well there is this issue that &foo where foo is an overloaded will give 
you pointer to the first version of foo in the source file.  There's no 
way to disambiguate as far as I know.  Particularly frustrating for 
property methods

    void prop(float x) { ... }
    float prop() { ... }


&prop just gives you the first one no matter what.

Maybe not what you're talking about with "matching using constants" but 
it is related to signature matching (or lack thereof).

--bb