03-Oct-2013 07:37, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
> On 10/2/13 8:14 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 02:21:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 10/2/13 10:06 AM, Dicebot wrote:
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>> Or more generally cope statement at the end of a scope.
>
> I'm cautious about that; that's why I specified "unbraced". Consider:
>
> if (lily)
> {
>      scope(exit) writeln("Lily was here.");
>      // fun();
> }
>
> This code is a plausible edit of work that was meaningful and in which
> the programmer has temporarily commented out the call to fun. If the
> compiler would obnoxiously protest that the edited code can't compile,
> that may be more aggravation than win for the user.
>
> In contrast, this is no simple edit of any sensible code:
>
> if (lily)
>      scope(exit) writeln("Lily was here.");
>
> Here, the compiler is much more within its rights to demand a code
> change, either to
>
> scope(exit) if (lily) writeln("Lily was here.");
>
> or
>
> if (lily) writeln("Lily was here.");
>

Truth be told I'd be _very_ cautious of the tiny special cases like this, they make generating D code (including at CTFE) a PITA.


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Dmitry Olshansky