Walter Bright wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> 1.020 seemed to be stable. Like 1.016, it was around for a long time, and therefore particularly well tested. There were some great bug fixes in 1.018 and 1.019.
> 
> Done.
> 
>> There's that substantive change about .init which happened in 1.017. If that's permanent, it'd be good to stop further development relying on the old behaviour.
>> I think we need a policy for when the 'stable version' should be updated.
>>
>>
>> Also, I don't see any mention of delimited string literals in the changelog. <g>
> 
> Fixed.

According to the docs,

q{/*}*/ }

is the same as

"/*?*/ "

is this a feature to assist macros in parsing strings -- all comments are turned to '?', or is it a mistake?


  -- Reiner

Reiner Pope wrote:
> According to the docs,
> 
> q{/*}*/ }
> 
> is the same as
> 
> "/*?*/ "
> 
> is this a feature to assist macros in parsing strings -- all comments are turned to '?', or is it a mistake?

It's a typo. Replace the ? with }.

Walter Bright wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> 1.020 seemed to be stable. Like 1.016, it was around for a long time, and therefore particularly well tested. There were some great bug fixes in 1.018 and 1.019.
> 
> Done.
> 
>> There's that substantive change about .init which happened in 1.017. If that's permanent, it'd be good to stop further development relying on the old behaviour.
>> I think we need a policy for when the 'stable version' should be updated.
>>
>>
>> Also, I don't see any mention of delimited string literals in the changelog. <g>
> 
> Fixed.

Speaking of which, what is the purpose of delimiter strings and the like (token strings, identifier strings) ? Neither the docs or slides go into much detail. So far I can only see use for token strings, in string mixins.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D

Walter Bright wrote:
> Reiner Pope wrote:
>> According to the docs,
>>
>> q{/*}*/ }
>>
>> is the same as
>>
>> "/*?*/ "
>>
>> is this a feature to assist macros in parsing strings -- all comments are turned to '?', or is it a mistake?
> 
> It's a typo. Replace the ? with }.

I also thought it was a ?. Specially since the same example is in the PDF of the conference (slide 36). I also have the doubt of Bruno: what's the use of delimited strings and token strings?

"Nathan Reed" <nathaniel.reed@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fbpfek$2qpb$1@digitalmars.com...
<snip>
> The docs for delimited string literals are now at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html

One thing for sure: these things are going to be a nightmare to syntax-highlight!

Stewart. 

"Sascha Katzner" <sorry.no@spam.invalid> wrote in message news:fbobj2$1tdh$1@digitalmars.com...
> yidabu wrote:
>> build every program, cause:
>> Compile error: QuadPart is not a member  of LARGE_INTEGER
>
> I've just encountered the same error ("Error: 'QuadPart' is not a member of 'LARGE_INTEGER'") when I tried to compile the WindowsAPI sources. Could be related to: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1473

Indeed.  I might have to go back to 1.020 pending a fix.

There are quite a few regressions.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?version=1.021&bug_severity=regression

1485 has broken my utility library.  1484 may have broken a project or two of mine as well.

Stewart. 

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "Nathan Reed" <nathaniel.reed@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fbpfek$2qpb$1@digitalmars.com...
> <snip>
> 
>> The docs for delimited string literals are now at http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html
> 
> 
> One thing for sure: these things are going to be a nightmare to syntax-highlight!
> 
> Stewart.

I've already updated the Pygments syntax highlighter with this new syntax. They are not fundamentally any harder to highlight than the existing nesting /+ +/ comments.

-- 
Kirk McDonald
http://kirkmcdonald.blogspot.com
Pyd: Connecting D and Python
http://pyd.dsource.org

"Kirk McDonald" <kirklin.mcdonald@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fc2u8u$21d9$1@digitalmars.com...
<snip> [delimited string literals]
> I've already updated the Pygments syntax highlighter with this new syntax. They are not fundamentally any harder to highlight than the existing nesting /+ +/ comments.

Maybe.  But still, nested comments are probably likely to be supported by more code editors than such an unusual feature as delimited strings.

Stewart. 

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Speaking of which, what is the purpose of delimiter strings and the like (token strings, identifier strings) ? Neither the docs or slides go into much detail. So far I can only see use for token strings, in string mixins.


Makes it easier to insert arbitrary text as a string without having to worry about an inadvertent delimiter inside the string.

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Maybe.  But still, nested comments are probably likely to be supported by more code editors than such an unusual feature as delimited strings.

Delimited strings are standard practice in Perl. C++0x is getting delimited strings. Code editors that can't handle them are going to become rapidly obsolete.

The more unusual feature is the token delimited strings.