Bug fixes, some enhancements.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html

http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bug fixes, some enhancements.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip

From the changelog:

* final for variables now works.

What does this do? I didn't see anything in an obvious place in the spec explaining it.

Also, I have updated the keyword index:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/KeywordIndex

-- 
Kirk McDonald
http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com
Pyd: Connecting D and Python
http://pyd.dsource.org

Kirk McDonald wrote:
>  From the changelog:
> 
> * final for variables now works.
> 
> What does this do? I didn't see anything in an obvious place in the spec explaining it.

It's the first part of the final/const/invariant thing. No documentation is written on it yet. All final is is that if you declare a variable as final, you can only initialize it. It cannot be reassigned.

> Also, I have updated the keyword index:
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/KeywordIndex

Thank-you.

Walter Bright wrote

> some enhancements.

I believe that "macro" is the wrong wording for the intended semantics of manipulating ASTs.

D supporters might get into serious argumentative troubles when negating the usefullness of C macros on one side and OTOH have to hail AST manipulators which irritatingly have the same name: "macro".

Please choose "ast" or any other word that does not remind of mere textual exchanges.

-manfred

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bug fixes, some enhancements.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip

Hmm .. nice
ref is better than inout ..

um,
What is the macro keyword for?
Where is it documented? If at all?

gj, as always

Walter Bright wrote:
> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>>  From the changelog:
>>
>> * final for variables now works.
>>
>> What does this do? I didn't see anything in an obvious place in the spec explaining it.
> 
> It's the first part of the final/const/invariant thing. No documentation is written on it yet. All final is is that if you declare a variable as final, you can only initialize it. It cannot be reassigned.

Is that like what "const" does, at the moment?

L.

Thanks! (I'll keep repeating it)

Walter Bright escribió:
> Bug fixes, some enhancements.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip

"Manfred Nowak" <svv1999@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eviatg$7r5$1@digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright wrote
>
>> some enhancements.
>
> I believe that "macro" is the wrong wording for the intended semantics of manipulating ASTs.
>
> D supporters might get into serious argumentative troubles when negating the usefullness of C macros on one side and OTOH have to hail AST manipulators which irritatingly have the same name: "macro".

..but then you have Lisp programmers who will feel right at home calling it 'macro,' which is, I guess, the motivation for calling them as such.

I don't think it'll be much of a problem; the D macros will probably be able to take the place of most C preprocessor macros, so it'll just be "D's macros are better than C's."

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bug fixes, some enhancements.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip

Great.

I updated the D mode for Emacs [1] with the new keywords.

I also noticed that I had forgotten to include 'inout' and 'cast' as keywords previously.

[1] http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsDMode

--bb

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Bug fixes, some enhancements.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.011.zip
> 
> Hmm .. nice
> ref is better than inout ..
> 
> um,
> What is the macro keyword for?
> Where is it documented? If at all?
> 
> gj, as always

Quoth the log:
* Added keywords ref and macro.
* ref now works as a replacement for inout.

I think this means what it means - Walter just reserved the keywords, and 'ref' is now a synonym for 'inout'.

-- 
- EricAnderton at yahoo