Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu, el 2 de marzo a las 10:42 me escribiste:
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Boost 1.38.0 includes a new library ScopeExit:
http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_38_0
This library is based on D's scope(exit) according to the
documentation,
see at the end of the link:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/scope_exit/doc/html/scope_exit/alternatives.html
Cool. I confess I'm mildly miffed. In the "Acknowledge" section (sic)
yours truly is being acknowledged "for pointing me to scope(exit)
construct of the D programming language." In the Alternatives
section there's an unatrributed link to the ScopeGuard article. My
understanding of ScopeExit looks much more inspired and derivative
from ScopeGuard than a distinct artifact, something that goes
entirely unacknowledged.
For some reason ScopeGuard and scope(exit) consistently escapes
proper acknowledgments. Petru Marginean and I introduced the concept
in C++ and argued for its usefulness. I invented the gorram
scope(exit) statement for D, and Walter almost forgot to acknowledge
me. And now this. What are you going to do...
Is there any particular reason why you are so concerned about credits?
I'm not saying they don't matter, but you seem to take it too hard.
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.
I'm at the low end too. For example, rdmd is based on my original idea.
But by not begging around for acknowledgements, I bet nobody at all
knows it anymore.
Many years ago I sent a private mail to Walter with the idea, six months
later I started advocating it vigorously on this NG, later I mailed a
shell script to him that does what rdmd does now.
The whole concept is mine, right down to shebangs in D source files and
caching binaries.
Heh, so incidentally, there might be some point in activating myself in
that area. Also outside of the D community.... :-(
The biggest lie I've ever heard is "the meek shall inherit the earth".
