cent/ucent

[Stewart Gordon]

bearophile wrote:
> This is one of the last dmd changes:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/557
> 
> cent/ucent are probably easy to implement, their implementation can 
> require little code on 64 bit systems, and operations done among them 
> are probably fast on 64 bit systems.
<snip>

Whether it's implemented any time soon or not, I'd like the "feature" 
whereby trying to use cent/ucent is a _syntax_ error to be finally 
removed.  In the current state of things, making code forward compatible 
is a nightmare, and the later it's left the less backward compatible any 
code using cent/ucent can expect to be.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=785

Unfortunately it's now too late for libraries targeting D 1.0 to make 
use of it.  But still, would it make sense to drop the fix into D1, 
given that there is still work to do on the spec anyway?

Stewart.