• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Apr 01 2009
• "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Apr 01 2009
• "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Apr 01 2009
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Apr 01 2009
• Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> Apr 01 2009
• Don <nospam nospam.com> Apr 02 2009

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Walter Bright:
 The large volume of bug fixes is because a lot of people contributed 
 patches. Thanks!


Because you have given them a chance to do it :-)

I have tested 1.042 and runs all my unittests fine.

Added alias this<


I'd like a bit more explanations/examples of the usage of this feature.

Bye,
bearophile

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:gqvi1g$2uin$1 digitalmars.com...
 Walter Bright:
 The large volume of bug fixes is because a lot of people contributed
 patches. Thanks!


 Because you have given them a chance to do it :-)

 I have tested 1.042 and runs all my unittests fine.

Added alias this<


 I'd like a bit more explanations/examples of the usage of this feature.


Yes, I'm wondering if this will finally let us do something along the lines 
of:

template Foo()
{
    alias "blah blah" this;
    // Was: const char[] Foo = "blah blah";
}

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> writes:

"Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> wrote in message 
news:gr09qr$1793$1 digitalmars.com...
 Yes, I'm wondering if this will finally let us do something along the 
 lines of:

 template Foo()
 {
    alias "blah blah" this;
    // Was: const char[] Foo = "blah blah";
 }


Or, perhaps more likely, wondering if it'll let us do something like this:

template Foo(T)
{
   // Was: alias Bar!(T) Foo;
   alias Bar!(T) this;
}

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 I'd like a bit more explanations/examples of the usage of this feature.


The short answer - makes "wrapper" structs easy.

Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Walter Bright:
 The large volume of bug fixes is because a lot of people contributed 
 patches. Thanks!


 Because you have given them a chance to do it :-)


Actually, with LDC or GDC that chance has been there for ages.  The
compilable release of DMD makes it easier.  I know I used GDC several
times over the years to debug and fix a number of issues as well as
develop and test a new feature.

Later,
Brad

Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:

Brad Roberts wrote:
 bearophile wrote:
 Walter Bright:
 The large volume of bug fixes is because a lot of people contributed 
 patches. Thanks!




 Actually, with LDC or GDC that chance has been there for ages.  


Not on Windows.

The
 compilable release of DMD makes it easier.  I know I used GDC several
 times over the years to debug and fix a number of issues as well as
 develop and test a new feature.
 
 Later,
 Brad