finding errors with templates without instantiating them

[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

> I think that if this sort of thing is to be considered, it 
> needs to be
> considered after all of the far more major issues have been 
> resolved.

In general this a well know fallacious point of view. I D there 
are large issues open since several years. If you apply your idea 
to this situation along the years, then you don't improve the 
compiler much
In most jobs you use pipelining: you don't wait for the largest 
jobs to finish before doing small jobs. You try to cram as many 
jobs in parallel as possible, filling all the empty cracks, to 
increase throughput. This is why people are improving small 
things in dmd even if large compiler issues are still present.

Bye,
bearophile