On 2016-12-23 18:09, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Well clearly some changes in the compiler and/or runtime could bring us
> to where we want to be.

Yeah, something like RTInfo but for modules. There's already an issue reported for this since a couple of years ago [1].

[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10023

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2016-12-23 16:09, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> sometimes i confess i want to write a new druntime. maybe i'd call it
> "dango"

Hehe, druntime is the only part that was shared between Tango and Phobos/druntime for D2.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2016-12-23 15:20, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> Wouldn't it just be glorious if that magically printed:
>
> test.d(4): Assertion failure
>      (a == b) is false
>      a = 0
>      b = 1

Or if there was a language feature that allowed us to do this in a library, and a bunch of other things. I wonder what that could be ... :)

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/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 24 December 2016 at 09:31:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-12-23 15:20, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it just be glorious if that magically printed:
>>
>> test.d(4): Assertion failure
>>      (a == b) is false
>>      a = 0
>>      b = 1
>
> Or if there was a language feature that allowed us to do this in a library, and a bunch of other things. I wonder what that could be ... :)


As no one has mentioned it yet - some ideas are preserved in DIP83:

http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP83