[dmd-beta] Releasing 2.066.1

Martin Nowak via dmd-beta dmd-beta at puremagic.com
Wed Oct 15 04:19:56 PDT 2014


On 10/08/2014 06:28 PM, Steven Schveighoffer via dmd-beta wrote:
> Martin,
>
> If you recall, in 2.066, the AA code was changed to use typeinfo.equals instead of typeinfo.compare.
>
> This caused a so called "regression", which prompted Walter to undo the work that disallows AA keys with compare override but not equals override (a knee jerk reaction IMO to the term "regression"). I believe you had written the code for and pushed for that error. I haven't seen your voice on that change, but I thought it was not a good idea to remove that error.
>
Indeed fairly suboptimal, why hasn't anyone stopped him from doing it?

> I don't think it has been undone for classes either, so at least current git head is inconsistent.
>
> Your thoughts? Releasing 2.066.1 as is will allow code built to expect opCmp to work as an AA key will silently fail as we discussed (I tested this a few weeks ago).
>
> Relevant discussion:https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13179

Yes, it might silently break certain code, but apparently erroring on 
code that would work with the compiler generated xOpEquals wasn't 
acceptable either.
At least it's noted in the changelog.
http://dlang.org/changelog.html#aa-key-requirement


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