On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 22:22:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 15:15:39 Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I'm not against it, but I find it a very small improvement.
Its user
base is exactly people who want to write and deploy a template
without
ever testing it at all, ever. I have a hard time catering to
that
hypothetical crowd.
That crowd deserves whatever bugs they get.
- Jonathan M Davis
*cough* Phobos is that crowd *cough*
Seriously. Most new code is tested, however, there is a ton of
older code that is not only not-tested, but not even *compiled*:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1514
Not that I'm necessarily *for* said feature, but I think we need
to re-evaluate who this "hypothetical crowd" is, before looking
down on it.
