Can we kill the D calling convention already?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 26-04-2012 13:37, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 14:32:13 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> You're missing the point. D is providing (or trying to provide) a
>> standard inline assembler, but calling conventions are not
>> standardized enough for it to be useful across compilers. If you're
>> writing inline assembly because you *have* to, you don't just "version
>> it out", you have to write different logic for different compilers,
>> which is a maintenance nightmare.
>
> Don't implement complex logic in assembly, extract it to D or C code.

Look, your argument is just plain invalid. Please reread what I said: 
"[...] If you're writing inline assembly because you *have* to [...]". 
Notice the emphasis. And even if we disregarded that, the language 
boasts a standardized inline assembler, and therefore needs to actually 
make it sane to use it. As it stands, we're no better than C and C++, 
yet we claim we are.

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- Alex