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[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Ok, per Aarti's suggestion: without speaking officially for Walter, let me
>> ask this - what do you think are the top issues you'd like to see fixed in
>> D?
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> 1. Unify tango and phobos.
>
> 2. Make overloading templates with functions or other templates (in
> the same module at least) "just work".
>
> 3. fix the #of fixups bug. (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=424)
>  This is a killer for large code bases that make extensive use of
> templates.  It requires painful import gymnastics to ensure that
> intermediate types always get instantiated in some module other than
> "main".   This may be a good motivator for trying to make LLVMDC the
> primary D implementation.
>
> 4. fix the memory leaking in CTFE functions.  There's already a GC in
> DMD, enabling it fixes the problem, just there are some bugs that
> prevent it from being used, as the LLVMDC guys found.
>
> 5. override of closure memory allocation in D2 -- This one is for
> Frank.  As a DWT user, I'd like to see Frank's #1 DWT-related issue
> fixed.  (I think this was your #1 DWT-related request wasn't, Frank?)
>

Ooh, I forgot reference return values.
But sounds like that's already work in progress so I don't really need
to list it. :-)

--bb