[GSoC] RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft)

[Don]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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? 

Eventually. That requires some form of class literal to be created 
inside the compiler, so it's a bit more work.

> 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?

My plan at this stage is just to overhaul the existing functionality (so 
that everything that currently sort-of works or seems to work, actually 
DOES work).