D should disallow forward references

[language_fan]

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:15:28 -0700, Walter Bright thusly wrote:

> language_fan wrote:
>> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:42:35 +0000, BCS thusly wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Leandro,
>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> bingo. The code comes from all kinds of palaces and IIRC Walter
>>> doesn't want to track down the authors of every little bit of code.
>> 
>> The law might be different in your country (the ones in charge of the
>> US and A are known to suffer from retardness - go go SCO), but at least
>> here and many other countries if the original code snippets are small
>> enough, they fall outside the scope of copyright. Walter however, as an
>> author of the compilation of snippets, has copyright to the collection.
> 
> I think the rule is 10 lines of code.

I doubt that. The expressivity between languages differs a lot and 
there's no standard definition for LOC count. For example some 1000 LOC 
program written in ancient Basic might easily fit inside the limit of 10 
LOC when written in a modern high level language. Luckily I write 
proprietary closed source applications and obfuscate the code with a 
customized gcc backend so I don't need to care about copyright issues 
even when stealing copyrighted code.