[dmd-beta] Time for a new beta?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, August 20, 2011 18:02:15 Andrew Wiley wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jonathan M Davis 
<jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:39:22 Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> > > 3. I tried to remove some more (currently soft) deprecation messages
> > > regarding std.ctype, and it turned out that it was a bit of a hassle
> > > to
> > > get it to compile because I had to mix both std.ascii and std.uni.
> > > This
> > > is happening because I'd like to use the isAlpha from std.uni, but
> > > there are other functions missing from std.uni (like isDigit,
> > > isHexDigit,> 
> > etc.).
> > 
> > > I think this was discussed before, but I'm not sure what the
> > > conclusion
> > > was. I suggest adding some forwarding aliases to std.uni for
> > > function
> > > that have identical implementation, and ensure that the compiler
> > > does
> > > not complain about ambiguities if these are just aliases to the same
> > 
> > symbol.
> > 
> > All calls to functions in std.ctype should be replaced either with
> > functions
> > in std.ascii or functions std.uni. Functions with the identical names do
> > the
> > same thing except that those in std.uni operate on unicode, and those in
> > std.ascii only operate on ascii (they still work with unicode
> > characters;
> > they
> > just ignore them). If you need to use both std.ascii and std.uni, then
> > you need to fully qualify them - e.g. std.ascii.isUpper or
> > std.uni.isAlpha - or you need to create aliases for them.
> 
> On a somewhat related note, I wonder if this pull request could get reviewed
> in the near future (and hopefully a fix could make it into the next
> version):
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/190
> (Fixes selective and renamed imports without having to touch overload
> resolution in the way discussed via email.)
> 
> This is probably the single most painful bug in DMD.

That depends on Walter. I don't know what his process is for going through 
pull requests. He'll get to it eventually, but I have no idea when.

- Jonathan M Davis