Happy New Year!

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.054.zip


http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.038.zip

Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.

Hello Walter,

> Happy New Year!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.054.zip
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.038.zip
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.
> 


New updates, Always nice to see! Damn, I like to see those long list of bugs!

Hello Walter,

> Happy New Year!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.054.zip
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.038.zip
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.
> 

Oh cool, I think I'm going to like this one: 2816: "Sudden-death static assert is not very useful"

12 Grammar fixes? Sweeeeet!

Walter Bright:
> Happy New Year!

Happy end of the year to you too!
Is this the last release for the 2009? ;-)

This is funny:
min(x, y) = 10;    // sets x to 10

This looks by far like the most useful improvement/change of this DMD release, I've already tried it and I like it a lot, thanks to Don and to you!
>Bugzilla 2816: Sudden-death static assert is not very useful<

Bye,
bearophile

Walter Bright wrote:
> Happy New Year!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.054.zip
> 
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.038.zip
> 
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.

Very nice!

In http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/function.html#auto-ref-functions the links for auto function and ref function are broken.

Happy New Year!
Ary

Walter Bright wrote:
> Happy New Year!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.054.zip
> 
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.038.zip
> 
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.

Tons of bug fixes == great!

But I have a problem: the compiler is either extremely slow for me, or is stuck in an endless loop. All it does is to slowly allocate memory. I aborted the compilation after ~ 20 minutes and 2 GB RAM allocation. This wasn't the case with dmd 1.053, where it only took 5-10 seconds to compile.

Can anyone confirm this?

bearophile wrote:
> This is funny: min(x, y) = 10;    // sets x to 10
> 
> This looks by far like the most useful improvement/change of this DMD
> release, I've already tried it and I like it a lot, thanks to Don and
> to you!

A lot of credit also goes to Andrei for design issues, and some others who also submitted bugzilla reports and patches, such as Rainer Schuetze.

I don't think the min() example is that useful, I can't think of when I ever needed it. But min() is important as one of those metaprogramming "litmus tests" that are the canary that indicates whether one has a complete system or not.

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> Happy New Year!
> 
> Happy end of the year to you too!
> Is this the last release for the 2009? ;-)
> 
> This is funny:
> min(x, y) = 10;    // sets x to 10
> 
> This looks by far like the most useful improvement/change of this DMD release, I've already tried it and I like it a lot, thanks to Don and to you!
>> Bugzilla 2816: Sudden-death static assert is not very useful<

I can't take credit for that. It comes from the LDC guys, I just enhanced it slightly.
There are 26 Bugzilla votes fixed in this release, which is probably a record. (I'm assuming bug 1961('scoped const') is considered to be fixed).

grauzone:
> But I have a problem: the compiler is either extremely slow for me, or
> is stuck in an endless loop. All it does is to slowly allocate memory. I
> aborted the compilation after ~ 20 minutes and 2 GB RAM allocation. This
> wasn't the case with dmd 1.053, where it only took 5-10 seconds to compile.
> Can anyone confirm this?

Show the code!

Bye,
bearophile

Walter Bright:
> I don't think the min() example is that useful,

No, I meant it's the Bugzilla 2816 that's very useful! :-)

Bye,
bearophile