On 6/22/2018 4:19 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote:
I want to do a pivot away from the macro stuff to ask another question.
Since I’ve wanted to contribute to the compiler for so long and I
finally have a little understanding I’d like to know if there’s anything
minor I could do, that isn’t offensive to the compiler team.
<rant>It's not about the compiler team. It's about the integrity of a
programming language, which doesn't matter these days a lot, when all
languages turned into a feature race to provide the same broken concepts,
but with slightly different syntax. Nevermind. I sometimes do not even
understand how people did stuff for 50 years without
TObjectClassAdvancedTemplateGenericRecordRTTI...</rant>
+1
It's not (only/just) what "the compiler team" wants. There are people
actually using the compiler. For real life purposes.
And a lot of what people are proposing, over and over again, are
solutions for problems that nobody has (in real life)...
Ralf
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