On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > > I'm, if anything, at the very low end of credit-beggars foodchain. You > wouldn't believe if I told you about some (rather notorious within the > community) people I know that ought to be a tad more modest :o). I just have > a dim view of not giving credit. Proper credit is extremely easy to give, > costs nothing, and is the right thing to do. The author of ScopeExit clearly > knew everything of ScopeGuard since he linked to it, but did not quite > acknowledge the relationship of his work to ScopeGuard, which should be done > even assuming he developed ScopeExit entirely in isolation. That's just... > you don't do that.
For what it's worth, the D docs page that he links to doesn't mention your name at all. I mean, I suppose Walter could give credit for each feature but that seems a bit out of place in a formal spec. Only in http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/exception-safe.html are you actually mentioned, and even there it doesn't really credit you as the inventor of the idea, just that you argued for it.
