• C. Dunn <cdunn2001 gmail.com> Aug 01 2007

C. Dunn <cdunn2001 gmail.com> writes:

Sean Kelly Wrote:

 It looks like a compiler bug to me, though who knows when it will be 
 addressed.


Problems related to this are getting tougher and tougher to get around.  I now
compile with all files on one command-line, and that is no longer enough.

I have templates in several different files now.  If I change the order of .d
files on the command-line, I get different messages like this:

  template instance Foo!(Far) does not match any template declaration

I have not been able to reduce the errors to a simple testcase, but I
understand the basic problem: D does not have a global view of templates.  It
needs to remember every template definition that it sees, including
specializations, so that it can insert it when requested.

This has become a very serious problem and may make it impossible for us to use
this language, which I otherwise enjoy very much.