On 11.10.21 03:08, Paul Backus wrote:
On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 00:34:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:36:56 UTC, surlymoor wrote:
Meanwhile @live is in the language, and it's half-baked. Then there's
preview switches that will linger on into perpetuity; DIPs'
implementations that haven't been finished.
And Walter has prioritized this issue over those. No matter what he
works on, people will moan that he isn’t working on something else.
Maybe we should clone him.
Perhaps worth asking why Walter, specifically, is required to work on
@live in order for it to make progress. Is it just because no one else
is willing to step up to the plate, or is he the only person
qualified/capable enough?
I think @live is a dead end and any further work on it is probably
wasted unless the code is reusable for some other feature. Ownership is
a property of values, not of functions operating on those values. In
particular, prioritizing ImportC over @live is the right call. ImportC
is high-impact and Walter has a lot of relevant expertise.
