DMD as a library - recap, next steps

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 08:16:25 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:

> Why would you ever need or want to OVERRIDE semantic.
> If you override semantics than by definition you are no longer,
> in the same language space.

It's useful to be able to do. It's not up the compiler developers 
to come up with every single use case. And just because they 
cannot come up with a use case doesn't mean there aren't any good 
ones. If a language or a library could only be used for what the 
creator could think of it would probably not be very useful at 
all.

I have a tool that has made some minor changes to the semantic 
phase to allow to infer attributes for all functions. Then it 
outputs all the attributes that can be attached to all functions 
of a given file.

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/Jacob Carlborg