[dmd-beta] D 1.075 and 2.060 betas 2

[kenji hara]

2012/7/31 kenji hara <k.hara.pg at gmail.com>:
> 2012/7/31 Don Clugston <dclugston at gmail.com>:
>> On 30 July 2012 16:28, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/30/12 10:27 AM, David Simcha wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So is http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8428  officially a
>>>> wontfix for this release?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it's quite important we fix that one and its ilk.
>>
>> Bug 5939 seems to be a Phobos design flaw, and this one is probably related.
>> Unfortunately, I don't think we can fix the problem other than by
>> ripping all Voldemort types out of Phobos. Voldemort Types now appear
>> to be a concept that has tragically flawed semantics, and also has
>> poor performance (see
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5939). Removing them
>> would be a big change to make this late in a release cycle.
>> I don't know what to do here.
>
> I completely agree. Voldemort type is a good idiom, but cannot control
> the context pointer.
>
> I think it requires such enhancement for the compiler.
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8463
>
> Kenji Hara

I've posted a pull for Phobos.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/728

Kenji Hara