Docs: Section on local variables
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Apr 21 02:16:41 PDT 2012
On Saturday, April 21, 2012 03:53:08 Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 April 2012 at 01:31:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> >_Very_ little in D requires or does flow
> > analysis.
>
> And D is worse off because of it.
Not being a compiler expert, I don't really know how much an issue flow
analysis really is, but for better or worse, Walter clearly thinks that it
complicates the compiler unnecessarily. Still, there are at least optimization
cases where it would probably help quite a bit to be able to do more flow
analysis. So, I do agree on that level. However, in this particular case, I
don't think that Java and C#'s solution for forced initialization of variables
prior to usage really buys us anything.
- Jonathan M Davis
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