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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