Reply to Gregor,

> I hate to do this, but ... BUMP!
> 
> It's been three weeks since I posted this, and nobody in any kind of
> position of authority (*cough* Walter) has responded ... a lot of
> people have said this would be nifty, and yet it continues to be
> ignored.
> 
> Can I at least get a "no, I don't agree"? I hate the halting problem
> :-(
> 
> - Gregor Richards
> 

you might be abel to hack #1 in your self by rebuilding phobos with a do-nothing main (with a lib tool you might not even have to rebuild it

BCS wrote:
> you might be abel to hack #1 in your self by rebuilding phobos with a do-nothing main (with a lib tool you might not even have to rebuild it
> 
> 

Please note that a patch to solve both problems is included in my original post.

 - Gregor Richards

Gregor Richards Wrote:

> I hate to do this, but ... BUMP!
> 
> It's been three weeks since I posted this, and nobody in any kind of position of authority (*cough* Walter) has responded ... a lot of people have said this would be nifty, and yet it continues to be ignored.
> 
> Can I at least get a "no, I don't agree"? I hate the halting problem :-(
> 
>   - Gregor Richards

I am new to D and have been using it a lot over the last month.  One of the things that is nice about D is how things seem to 'make sense'.  Unit testing requiring the program to be run was completely unexpected.  I think that the unit testing in the source code feature is one of the best things about D, but also probably the feature that is lacking most for a better implementation.

Greg Weber

Greg Weber wrote:
> Gregor Richards Wrote:
> 
>> I hate to do this, but ... BUMP!
>>
>> It's been three weeks since I posted this, and nobody in any kind of position of authority (*cough* Walter) has responded ... a lot of people have said this would be nifty, and yet it continues to be ignored.
>>
>> Can I at least get a "no, I don't agree"? I hate the halting problem :-(
>>
>>   - Gregor Richards
> 
> I am new to D and have been using it a lot over the last month.  One of the things that is nice about D is how things seem to 'make sense'.  Unit testing requiring the program to be run was completely unexpected.  I think that the unit testing in the source code feature is one of the best things about D, but also probably the feature that is lacking most for a better implementation.
> 
> Greg Weber

I agree too.  I was baffled when I first started getting linker errors trying to run unittests on some source code that lacked a main().

--bb

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Can I at least get a "no, I don't agree"? I hate the halting problem :-(

There's too much else going on that needs to get done asap. The const/invariant/final is currently sucking all my time.