D should disallow forward references

[Walter Bright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Don, el 26 de agosto a las 09:37 me escribiste:
>> I have a copy of Walter's internal DMD test suite, so I could actually
> 
> What was the reason not to release the test suite? Copyright?
> 
> Because Walter has claimed frequently that the submitted patches are not
> well tested. It would be a huge help for people contributing patches to
> have the "official" test suite to be sure their patches would be accepted.

The difficulty with that is the test suite I use is cobbled together 
from all kinds of sources. That means its copyright status is unclear. 
Distributing it would be an unknown problem.


>> test all of the patches and be 'patchmeister'(I'm currently responsible
>> for more than half the patches, anyway).  Maybe we could have
>> a 'patchdmd' branch in the repository, which I would have write access
>> to, maybe that would make it easier for Walter to incorporate patches
>> (it'd be particularly valuable for DMD1, I think). But the last thing
>> I'd want to do is make a fork of DMD.
> 
> And you know what? Even if you want, you can't (without Walter permission,
> of course)...
> 
> Then people ask why it's important that DMD is *really* free/libre.

You can make a fork of the compiler front end if you want - under the 
GNU license. The LDC team does that.