playing around with D

[Pragma]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Walter,
> 
>> BCS wrote:
>>
>>> Why do the static asserts get processed later?
>>>
>>> I'd expect that having them get processed sooner would make things
>>> work nicer.
>>>
>> There's always that chicken-and-egg problem of forward references.
>>
> 
> Ah!!
> 
> Wild thought: I know it's to late to do this for for DMD but, what would 
> the problems be of doing a lazy evaluation of the AST?
> I'm thinking something like; process the declarations and statements in 
> order (starting at the module level) and when you find a symbol you 
> don't know about go looking for it.
> 
> 

Interesting idea.  Maybe I'm just naive, but how would this be any different than just adding an additional semantic 
pass, while relaxing DMD's tendency to barf on unresolved symbols - or is that what you're proposing?

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