On 14 December 2013 02:50, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 16:28:33 UTC, Manu wrote:

I could still REALLY do with __forceinline though. D doesn't have an
effective macro.
Obviously, if by 'language X' you mean 'any non-compiled language with
pointers', then I totally agree! People who make claims like you say, don't
generally know what they're talking about, or what C is actually used for.

I believe (and have posted it over 100 times in NG already :P) D absolutely needs either way to force internal linkage or good LTO symbol elimination. Without preprocessor there is not much you can do to eliminate code duplication other than templates / CTFE - and it bloats resulting executables damn lot, something that was very controllable in C.

templates aren't guaranteed to inline, and they produce horrible symbol bloat. ctfe isn't inlining, it's pre-computation/runtime elimination.

mixin is the closest, but it can't be used effectively in expressions, is horribly dangerous and generally horrible, and requires much keyword pollution.

We really do need __forceinline. Walter did agreed on one occasion. He said something like "I've been thinking on it, and I think you might be right", which is almost a mental commitment... so there's hope! :P

Sadly it was in a hotel parking lot, and not committed to the eternal historic record (ie, the forum).

The alt-compilers have an attribute... if only we could alias attributes (or groups of attributes). Another thing we need... :/