The future of std.compiler

Stewart Gordon smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 29 12:17:58 PST 2011


On 20/11/2011 22:58, torhu wrote:
> On 20.11.2011 20:44, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
<snip>
>> What does everyone think? Should we keep this module around or just
>> deprecate it?
>
> IIRC, that module was added before __VENDOR__ and __VERSION__ were added to DMD. If it
> wasn't for that, I suppose it wouldn't even exist.

Identifiers beginning with __ are implementation-specific.  std.compiler, OTOH, continues 
to exist in order to provide _standardised_ access to information about the compiler.

Stewart.


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