Tsoding streamed about D

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Mar 27 20:01:41 UTC 2025


On 3/18/2025 11:36 PM, Meta wrote:
> His other main gripe was that the compiler rejects .h files, even though when he 
> changed the extension to .c, it compiled and ran just fine. In the footnote 
> section he actually downloads the source code and modifies it to compile .h 
> files, and it's a surprisingly simple change. I wonder if there's a specific 
> reason Walter didn't allow it.

The reason is Iain didn't like it because he had file.d and file.h in the same 
directory. He did implement a rather complex (in my opinion) way to disambiguate 
it, and I preferred simply having an order. We did not reach an agreement, and 
so .h files are not considered.

Is this stupid? Yes.


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