On Monday, February 25, 2019 4:09:55 PM MST Olivier FAURE via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > Yes, this DIP was fast-tracked. Yes, this can feel unfair. And > yet, it makes sense that it was fast-tracked, because it fits a > priority of the project owners (C++ interoperability + reference > counting) and project owners are allowed to have priorities. It's > not like this DIP was rushed or has major vulnerabilities (the > "mutable copy constructor" thing is necessary for reference > counting).
It's worth noting that the copy constructor DIP went through a _lot_ of discussion and was revised accordingly. So, while Walter and Andrei may have considered it a priority, it still took a while for it to get to the point that it was acceptable. - Jonathan M Davis
