Agenda

v2.066 (July 2014)

This release focuses on ???.

DMD

fix export DIP45

Get the DIP approved by Walter. Prototype an implementation to find further issues.

complete "Cross-module template overload" feature

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2417

complete DIP42 feature

• https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2467 (Compiler)
• https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/371 (Webpage)

Related

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2559

Allow lazy evaluation in manifest constant initializer.

introduce "uniform construction" syntax

Because it is already approved by Andrei.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1356

Relax syntactic limitations around UDA

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2924

Allow multidimensional opSlice overloads

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/443
Addresses Issue 6798 - Integrate overloadings for multidimentional indexing and slicing

fix Issue 10985 - function inlining

This depends on fixing some codegen bugs
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2561

fix Issue 7469 - template mangling depends on instantiation order

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/701

fix Issue 11171 - Text relocations in Phobos shared library

Review initZ and vtblZ relocations

fix Issue 11543 - multiple definition of std.regex with shared library

Must avoid copy relocations for ModuleInfos

Phobos

Reduce dependency hell, split up huge modules to enable fine-grained imports.

Upgrade std.regex to make use of new std.uni.

The goal is to reuse public APIs and to get rid of the old internal Unicode implementation. This would de-bloat Phobos and put std.uni to some serious performance test.

Done, see the pull.

Rework std.variant's Algebraic (ADTs)

• add compile-time checking that all possible types are handled by user code
• allow recursive data types

v2.067 (Oct 2014)

DMD

Top Priority

• C++ and GC. C++ and GC.

Imports and Protection

• Issue 313 – Fully qualified names bypass private imports
• Issue 314 – Static, renamed, and selective imports are always public
• https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2256
• DIP22 - private symbol visibility

Faster compilation

• imported aliases should be analyzed lazily
• static imports should be done lazily

Fix Property

• Consolidate DIPs, discussion necessary?
  • DIP21 - Fixing property
  • DIP23 - Fixing property redux
  • DIP24 - Fixing properties and optional parens

Druntime

high-level shared library support

Initial work in pull request #617. Need to improve the API of the Library wrapper.

library AA

• Rough plan
• New AssociativeArray implementation by IgorStepanov Pull Request #676
• Add aaInit and aaLiteral to construct AA through them Pull Request #678
• Replace AssociativeArray struct with UFCS methods Pull Request #668

Improve TickDuration

• TickDuration should be phased out in favor a new MonoTime. To obtain a Duration one would need to subtract two MonoTimes. Issue 11989

Better stack traces

• get line number information, replace dynamic symbol table for backtraces

Phobos

Faster compilation

• use more scoped imports in phobos