Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Jan 11 23:16:43 PST 2012


On 2012-01-11 21:34, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/11/2012 12:29 PM, Zachary Lund wrote:
>> D1 or D2 both don't have a very accurate definition. C and C++ has
>> several
>> hundred pages of specifications and while I'm hopefully not expecting
>> that, I do
>> want some certainty on what is *supposed* to happen.
>>
>> There is also no versioning. D2 is definitely different from D1 in the
>> case that
>> it's not backwards compatible, but version for the actual example
>> implementation
>> isn't enough, especially when that implementation doesn't always do
>> what it's
>> supposed to do.
>
> Please file bug reports for any errors/omissions in the specification on
> bugzilla.

That's the whole point. It's not clear what the actual specification IS. 
Is it DMD, dlang.org or TDPL?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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