Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[Paulo Pinto]

I see the TDPL as having the same role as the C++ ARM did.

http://www.amazon.de/Annotated-C-Reference-Manual/dp/0201514591

For those that don't know this book, Bjarne and Margaret wrote as an attempt
to have the first written specifcation of how CFront behaved and what was
expected by C++ compilers.

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Paulo


"Jacob Carlborg"  wrote in message news:jem1cr$2fco$1 at digitalmars.com...

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?

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/Jacob Carlborg