On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 19:49:51 UTC, Namespace wrote:
Yes your additions is included in what I meant by "stabilize".
We need to freeze the addition of new features for the "stable
release of the language" (we currently do not have a stable
release that is documented) and put it through the acid test
of real world use so it can be polished up based on the
feedback.
+1
But what about the features, that should be included, but are
still missing?
Missing plus new and improved features show up in the next stable
release of the language. The problem though is that we do not
have a stable release of the language, nor do we even have a beta
release. What we have can be described as a perpetual
experimental release of the language.
From what I can tell, we have enough already to document a stable
release that will be useful in practical terms. Yes more features
can and possibly should be added - but the desire to evolve and
improve the language will always be there, so it never stops. We
have to force a "stop" with an artificially imposed "stable"
release.
--rt
