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

"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";
}

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

The short answer - makes "wrapper" structs easy.

"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;
}

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

Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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.  

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