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[Elie Morisse via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 09:34:39 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> One major goal of this project is to figure out a good way to 
> handle non-trivial compile-time dependency structures (i.e. 
> solving the "forward reference error" problem). As it does 
> explicit dependency tracking on AST nodes, it can possibly be 
> used for fine-grained (AST-level) incremental compilation in 
> the future.

Great initiative! While mapping big C++ librairies with a lot of 
templates with Calypso I still hit forward referencing errors 
from time to time. Some of them were easily fixed but I feel that 
making the whole thing more robust is a complex task that can't 
be achieved through small fixes/hacks, it needs a drastic 
solution like yours.