[dmd-beta] Time for a new beta?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 21 aug 2011, at 02:04, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Saturday, August 20, 2011 18:10:01 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> From: "Dmitry Olshansky" <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com>
>> 
>>> On 20.08.2011 12:39, 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.
>>> 
>>> Recalling last discussion on this, the users have to solve this on their
>>> own. Be it use unicode everywhere or full std.ascii.xxx/std.uni.xxx or
>>> whatever. I ended up using renamed imports.
>> 
>> There's a simple alias trick that works very well for that sort of thing:
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> module m1;
>> void a() {};
>> void b() {};
>> ------------------------
>> module m2;
>> void b() {};
>> void c() {};
>> ------------------------
>> module main;
>> import m1
>> import m2;
>> 
>> // Nifty trick: Pull m1's b() into local scope,
>> // effectively"prioritizing" it.
>> private alias m1.b b;
>> 
>> void main() {
>>    b(); // Works: Calls m1.b()
>> }
>> ------------------------
> 
> In theory, that's a great solution, but it doesn't work right now:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6013
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
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Hasn't this issue already been reported? I've had this issue for several years, if I recall correctly.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg