Clay language

[Stanislav Blinov]

On 12/28/2010 03:49 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Stanislav Blinov wrote:
>> Frankly, I'd warmly back Walter on this one. "Requiring" optimizations
>> is similar to asking a compiler to do something it's not supposed to...
>
> Another problem with specified optimizations is that computer
> architectures change, and the right optimizations to use can change
> dramatically (and has).
>
>
>> I think that what *would* be useful is *disallowing* optimizations for
>> certain parts of code...
>
> This is the issue with "implementation defined" behavior. D tries to
> minimize that.

Damn. What defines a distance between knowledge and wisdom is often the 
ability to say everything with one word (well, at least one sentence) :)