• 8irmer informatik.uni-hamburg.de Nov 13 2002
• Mac Reiter <reiter nomadics.com> Nov 13 2002

Hi,

I tried out dm and encountered two problems.

1.) Declaration of enum constants in namespaces:

Example:

namespace storage {

enum type
{
dumb,
place,
pool,
heap
};
}

If i try to explicitely use these constants, like

unsigned int test = storage::heap;

-> error: namespace storage has no member heap

(while implicitely using them works ok, like

enum storage::type test = heap;

-> ok
)


2.) Problems with overriden operator->() in templates

If i have overriden the -> operator in a template class, and
i instantiate it with something where -> doesn't makes sense, i get an error
(even if i don't use the -> operator).
The dm compiler should only instantiate those templates which are really
needed, this would be more convenient. For example the gnu gcc and
visual c++ 7.0 doesn't complain, if you don't use the template
operator->()

class Test {
public:
double m;
}

smartptr<Test> p1;
p->m = 0.3;         // ok

smartptr<int> p2;  // ok if you don't use '->'


Best regards
Norbert Irmer

8irmer informatik.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I tried out dm and encountered two problems.
 
 2.) Problems with overriden operator->() in templates
 
 If i have overriden the -> operator in a template class, and
 i instantiate it with something where -> doesn't makes sense, i get an error
 (even if i don't use the -> operator).
 The dm compiler should only instantiate those templates which are really
 needed, this would be more convenient. For example the gnu gcc and
 visual c++ 7.0 doesn't complain, if you don't use the template
 operator->()


Actually, I believe that it is more than just "more convenient".  From 
what I can tell, the standard actually requires that unused template 
members _must_not_ be instantiated.  I don't have the standard itself 
sitting around, but I've seen enough references to designs that rely on 
the non-instantiation that I feel relatively confident that it is in the 
standard.

 class Test {
 public:
 double m;
 }
 
 smartptr<Test> p1;
 p->m = 0.3;         // ok
 
 smartptr<int> p2;  // ok if you don't use '->'
 
 
 Best regards
 Norbert Irmer


Mac