On 2/24/2020 12:43 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
Out of curiosity, how and who makes such a decision? Is there a voting? Is there
a committee? Is there a structured pro/con overview and highlight of
blocking-points that need to be resolved?
I talk it over with Atila after the review threads are done, then decide. Voting
is a terrible way to do engineering design, for many reasons I can list if you like.
I mean, people spend a lot of time thinking, making suggestions, etc. and the
end result is: we now have nothing. Which, IMO is the worst result for all.
Not totally. I was unable to convince people that printf format validation was
an orthogonal feature. So I went ahead and implemented that to show it had
nothing to do with the proposal:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10812
It turned out kinda sweet, and found a huge number of latent bugs in our own
code, proving we shoulda done that long ago :-) Bad printfs turned out to be
much more common than I'd anticipated.
As a community with highly skilled people I think there should be a way to come
to a good solution, not only a good enough. If not, this doesn't shed light on D
and the community...
Community input is what the review threads are for. Consensus on a good solution
did not emerge.
