I just noticed that the DMD Linux version is out!  YAY!

So I downloaded 0.64 and have been attempting to compile my old DLI code with DMD.  I have found a few minor problems:

* DLI supported [n..] and [..m] syntaxes but these don't work with DMD. It would be cool if DMD supported these as well.

* When using associative arrays, they are reverse-indexed, unlike other types of arrays.  So to declare an associative array, indexed by class Symbol, of arrays of references to class NFA_State, you have to declare:

    NFA_State[] [Symbol] array;
but in DLI you would declare:
    NFA_State[Symbol] [] array;
which I think makes a lot more sense.

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"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3EBFD4FF.45295D57@deming-os.org...
> I just noticed that the DMD Linux version is out!  YAY!
>
> So I downloaded 0.64 and have been attempting to compile my old DLI code with DMD.  I have found a few minor problems:
>
> * DLI supported [n..] and [..m] syntaxes but these don't work with DMD. It would be cool if DMD supported these as well.
>
> * When using associative arrays, they are reverse-indexed, unlike other types of arrays.  So to declare an associative array, indexed by class Symbol, of arrays of references to class NFA_State, you have to declare:
>
>     NFA_State[] [Symbol] array;
> but in DLI you would declare:
>     NFA_State[Symbol] [] array;
> which I think makes a lot more sense.

I changed it because a lot of people here argued the former made more sense <g>.

Walter wrote:

> "Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3EBFD4FF.45295D57@deming-os.org...
> > I just noticed that the DMD Linux version is out!  YAY!
> >
> > So I downloaded 0.64 and have been attempting to compile my old DLI code with DMD.  I have found a few minor problems:
> >
> > * DLI supported [n..] and [..m] syntaxes but these don't work with DMD. It would be cool if DMD supported these as well.
> >
> > * When using associative arrays, they are reverse-indexed, unlike other types of arrays.  So to declare an associative array, indexed by class Symbol, of arrays of references to class NFA_State, you have to declare:
> >
> >     NFA_State[] [Symbol] array;
> > but in DLI you would declare:
> >     NFA_State[Symbol] [] array;
> > which I think makes a lot more sense.
>
> I changed it because a lot of people here argued the former made more sense <g>.

Well, I don't plan to intermix DLI and DMD, so I can just get used to it, but
(shudder).

At least it's not assembly language...

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