On 3/10/2014 3:26 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:52:05 -0400, Walter Bright <[email protected]>
wrote:
This also makes it a non-starter.
You're the guardian of changes to the language, clearly holding a veto on any
proposals. But this doesn't come across as very open-minded, especially from
someone who wanted to do something that would change the fundamental treatment
of strings last week.
I deserve that criticism. On the other hand, I've pretty much given up on fixing
std.array.front() because of that. In the last couple days, we also wound up
annoying a valuable client with some minor breakage with std.json, reiterating
how important it is to not break code if we can at all avoid it.
IMO, breaking incorrect code is a good idea, and worth at least exploring.
Breaking broken code, yes.
