News and Opinions of the Digital Mars D Programming Language
I’m (sort of) back after a week with no internet access. Recently announced, GDC 0.20 has been released. In addition to incorporating several fixes, it is now updated to DMD 0.177.
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I’m a little late with this, but Walter has released DMD 0.177. There are several changed features, including another ABI change. So if you distribute libraries in binary form you will need to recompile them again. Something that might bite a lot of people is the new handling of arrays — they are no longer implicitly converted to pointers unless you pass -d on the command line. A lot of people requested that. I’m glad he left the option to keep that behavior, though. I don’t agree that it should be removed. As usual, there are several bug fixes as well.
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The D NGs have a shiny, new web interface for those who can’t be bothered to use a proper news client (I prefer Thunderbird, myself). I haven’t looked at it in detail yet, but it appears to be far better than the old interface. It actually shows threaded topics, for one.
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Walter has released another collection of DMD bug fixes and in the guise of DMD 0.176. In addition, there is a new module in the standard library, std.bind, as well as some ABI changes. The ABI changes will require recompilation of existing libraries if they are to be compatible with the new version.
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