Programming Language for Games, part 3

[Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 22:02:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 11/2/14 2:11 AM, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 01:28:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
>> Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1) Compile-time verification of format arguments -- passing 
>>> the wrong
>>> number of arguments or arguments of mismatching type will 
>>> force
>>> compilation failure. Currently, it will compile successfully 
>>> but fail at
>>> runtime.
>>
>> +1000! That would be awesome!
>>
>> It would be a _great_ boost in productivity during the 
>> debugging phase,
>> or when we are under pressure and can't do a great job in code 
>> coverage.
>
> Compile-time checking of format strings is nice to have, but I 
> hardly see it as a major productivity boost. Maybe the better 
> effect would be it serving as an example for other libraries to 
> follow. -- Andrei

For sure it is a boost: the raising of such exception is not so 
uncommon, and I assure that here at work is one of the top 5 
cursed things when it happens.

Top of the pop, for cursing, when it happens in production.

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Paolo