What are the worst parts of D?

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 12:51:45 PDT 2014


On 9/25/2014 10:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/25/14, 10:26 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:50:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 25/09/14 09:38, Atila Neves wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's one: having to manually generate the custom main file for
>>>> unittest builds. There's no current way (or at least there wasn't when I
>>>> brought it up in the dub forum) to tell it to autogenerate a D file from
>>>> a dub package and list it as a dependency of the unittest build.
>>>
>>> Hmm, I haven't used Dub to run unit tests. Although, DMD has a "-main"
>>> flag that adds an empty main function.
>>
>> I don't want an empty main function. I want the main function and the
>> file it's in to be generated by the build system.
>
> Why would be the focus on the mechanism instead of the needed outcome? -- Andrei


I've found:

    -main -unittest -cov

to be terribly convenient when developing modules. Should have added -main much 
sooner.


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