http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9029



--- Comment #10 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2012-11-30 04:00:37 PST ---
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> > > > There was a proposal recently on the NG suggesting builtin types should have entries in the symbol table. Sounded fairly reasonable.
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> > > Yeah, this is what the dragon book suggests as well.
> > 
> > Huh? There is no technical difficulty whatsoever, AFAIK it was _never_ thought to be difficult to implement.
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> When did the difficulty come in to question? Something to do with this 'dragon book' that I don't understand?

The comments you guys have made indicated to me that you don't realize that the reason this isn't part of the language is simply because Walter has seen it as undesirable. (Not that it would make the compiler ugly or complicated or anything like that).

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--- Comment #11 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> 2012-11-30 06:59:54 PST ---
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> The comments you guys have made indicated to me that you don't realize that the reason this isn't part of the language is simply because Walter has seen it as undesirable. (Not that it would make the compiler ugly or complicated or anything like that).

Ah okay, yeah I have no idea about the implementation, just commenting on a
conversation I saw which sounded sensible :)
It'd be nice to have some sort of fix regardless. Any changes to make D more
orthogonal in general are surely good.

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