I'd love to have a centralized page/wiki/site that would contain: * D design flaws * proposed improvements (including far ranging ones)
otherwise it gets lost in emails On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 14:21:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote: > >> "Thread hijacking" achievement unlocked ;) >> >> Now, now, I changed the title. If this were a proper hijack, I'd be > trying to extract a ransom (like fixed AAs). ;) > > > On topic of such wiki page - it is kind of nice to have but lot of >> potential entries are controversial and need some serious discussion (for >> example, I'd place optional parens there as damaging mistake but reasonable >> people will disagree :P) before being documented. It risks being biased to >> preferences of view editors or turn into edit wards :) I don't know what is >> a good way to do this without devoting too much efforts. >> > > I don't think it needs to be that strict. Optional parentheses are > something that there are mixed opinions on, so that should be noted. It > may be better to think of it as "things to reconsider in the next > version"-- discuss later, once we have a lot more time with the current > stuff and it's actually TIME to hash out the future. > > "Not gospel" means it's okay for things like that to be in there. Heck, > compare the vision for X12 with what Wayland [0] is actually shaping up to > be: they're...rather different. ;) (I'm aware that being "the next X11" > wasn't Kristian's goal and it was originally an experiment to be folded > into X.org, but reality is weird.) > > -Wyatt > > [0] http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html >
