[GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/26/11 3:01 PM, Don wrote:
> David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On 3/26/11 5:16 PM, Don wrote:
>>> I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be
>>> finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the
>>> release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause
>>> of almost all of the problems, will be fixed. I hope to move CTFE out
>>> the "experimental feature" category.
>>
>> That's great news – do you plan to put your work in progress up at
>> GitHub somewhere before the official release?
>
> Yes, definitely. All my fixes go into my fork of dmd on github.
> My CTFE work is progressing quite well. Simple test cases like the one
> in bug 1330 are working (and all the existing tests still pass, of
> course). It will be a while before I publish it to github, though -- the
> code is VERY untidy, and lots of stuff isn't implemented yet.
>
>> I'm playing around with CTFE quite a bit at the moment and plan to
>> have a stab at making the basic parts of std.algorithm CTFE-able soon
>> (Steve, did you find time to look at the Appender issue yet?), so I'd
>> be glad to test any improvements…
>
> My changes will make a *lot* more things work in CTFE. I recommend
> against spending much time making things CTFE-able right now.

This is absolutely awesome. Compile-time evaluation is a key strategic 
feature of D. Thank you!

Two questions - do you plan to allow class object creation a la new 
Widget? Also, since the upcoming features will be in time for GSoC 
projects, could you write a brief documentation project describing the 
scope of your improvements?


Thanks again,

Andrei