On Monday, December 10, 2012 13:50:47 Walter Bright wrote: > On 12/10/2012 12:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > Regardless, the UDA stuff can't be in the next release. > > Why? (It's being heavily used by some people.)
It hasn't even been properly worked out yet, and new features like that shouldn't be being introduced in the main branch. It's not at all ready for general consumption, and if it's in there, people are going to start using it and then complaining when their code breaks when we change it later. It's the sort of thing that should be on a separate branch and not in master. Even worse, if the new stable branch that we've been talking about includes this, then you'll have programmers programming with it for months before they get the updates with the design that we're actually going to end up with, meaning that that much more code will be written for that much longer with an incomplete feature, waiting to be broken when the feature is actually updated in the version of the compiler that they're using. Andrei was already complaining about this was handled in the thread where they were introduced, and I expect that he'll agree that it shouldn't be in the release. It's not ready. - Jonathan M Davis
