Re: Release process and backwards compatibility

[Marco Leise]

I don't know much about the development process, but as you
said some bugs may be features or vice versa. Sometimes real
bugs are fixed and peoples' code breaks. But keeping the bug
around isn't an option.
The next code breakage comes from making array slices
consistently rvalues (the slice structure itself, not the
data). It's not a new idea, like introducing immutable, just
wasn't correctly implemented from the start. I don't know if
this warrants a LTS release already. The problem will be
obvious and easy to fix by introducing a temp variable to pass
as lvalue into functions taking slices by ref. Or changing
those functions to auto-ref.