[SAOC 2024] "Refactoring the Include Method: Moving to dsymbolsem" Weekly update #4

Dennis dennis.onyeka.4 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 22:30:19 UTC 2024


## Tasks Accomplished

The include method is another sem function that depends on 
dsymbolsem which was residing in an AST class.
During this week’s task I moved the `include` method to 
dsymbolsem, the method basically evaluates certain declarations 
that should be processed based on conditions or attributes.

Include method resides in `AttribDeclaration`  class and has 
subclasses like `ConditionalDeclaration`, `StaticIfDeclaratio`n, 
and `StaticForeachDeclaration`. Each of them were moved 
respectively and transformed into a visitor.` frontend.h` and 
`attrib.h `will be updated upwards reflecting the changes made.

Although, the refactoring is still ongoing with rigorous testing 
and debugging.
Currently encountering some errors which I’m working on with the 
guidance from my mentor

### PR&Commits => 
[https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16970](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16970)

### Next Tasks
Finished up the` attrib.d` and move over to the next 
module(`cond.d`).



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