www.digitalmars.com         C & C++   DMDScript  

digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 5038] New: Change class 'invariant' syntax to emulate 'unittest'

reply d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038

           Summary: Change class 'invariant' syntax to emulate 'unittest'
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: ah08010-d yahoo.com



PDT ---
Presently a class invariant is required to be a single function:

class C {
    int height;
    int width;

    invariant() {
        assert( height < 10 );
        assert( width < 11 );
    }
}

For large and/or complex classes, it would improve locality if the invariant
could be specified piecemeal, in much the same was that unittest blocks are
stitched together into a whole:

class C {
    int height;

    invariant {
        assert( height < 10 );
    }

    int width;

    invariant {
        assert( width < 11 );
    }
}

The parentheses after invariant seem useless, too - also very much like
unittest.

-- 
Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Oct 10 2010
next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038


Austin Hastings <ah08010-d yahoo.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement


-- 
Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Oct 10 2010
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038


bearophile_hugs eml.cc changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |bearophile_hugs eml.cc



About invariant syntax see also bug 3856

-- 
Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Oct 10 2010
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038


yebblies <yebblies gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |yebblies gmail.com
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE



The parentheses are necessary, because without them invariant is a deprecated
alias for immutable.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 6453 ***

-- 
Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038





 The parentheses are necessary, because without them invariant is a deprecated
 alias for immutable.
Eventually that alternative meaning will go away, so invariant for structs/class instances will be free to drop the useless (). -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038


yebblies <yebblies gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
           Platform|Other                       |All
         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |
            Summary|Change class 'invariant'    |Allow declaring class
                   |syntax to emulate           |invariant without
                   |'unittest'                  |parentheses
         OS/Version|Windows                     |All



Fair enough.

-- 
Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038


Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |andrej.mitrovich gmail.com



16:46:22 PST ---

 Fair enough.
The deprecation page lists it as deprecated since 2.057, but the Error and Gone dates are empty. I'm not sure what the plan is, but I doubt there's any *compilable* D2 code out there that actually uses invariant instead of immutable. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038





 The deprecation page lists it as deprecated since 2.057, but the Error and Gone
 dates are empty. I'm not sure what the plan is, but I doubt there's any
 *compilable* D2 code out there that actually uses invariant instead of
 immutable.
The general idea is to leave at least six months between deprecation stages. The version numbers are missing because there is no fixed release schedule, and no guarantee the change would be pulled in time to match any projected date. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 16 2013
prev sibling parent d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5038






 The deprecation page lists it as deprecated since 2.057, but the Error and Gone
 dates are empty. I'm not sure what the plan is, but I doubt there's any
 *compilable* D2 code out there that actually uses invariant instead of
 immutable.
I am 100% sure that is true. 'invariant' only meant 'immutable' for a very short period of time, when hardly anyone was using D2, and when D2 was completely experimental and not seriously usable.
 
 The general idea is to leave at least six months between deprecation stages. 
 The version numbers are missing because there is no fixed release schedule, and
 no guarantee the change would be pulled in time to match any projected date.
Well, this is a very strange situation. invariant without parentheses is LEGAL IN D1! When converting D1 code to D2, you get this nonsense deprecation message asking you to use immutable instead. We have existing production code which uses invariant without parentheses! We should make it legal again. This would be an undeprecation, which AFAIK has never happened before in D. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
Jan 17 2013