On Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:57 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > IIRC, old was rejected because it added extra > > complication for little value. > > It add some complexity, but I can't agree that it adds little value, this > is a mistake. The prestate increases significantly the usefulness of > contract programming. And I don't remember it being rejected, I just > remember the discussion stopped, like a river dying and drying up in a > desert. Do you have a link of a post where it was rejected? I think there > is an enhancement request about prestate in Bugzilla, and it is open > still. Before actually rejecting this feature, it will need one more good > discussion in the main D newsgroup.
I'd have to go digging, but from what I recall, it was pretty clear that it wasn't happening. But since it's not a feature that I care about at all, it's not something that I've tracked particularly closely. - Jonathan M Davis
