On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 06:02:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
1. Challenging Walter on anything and everything seems to have
become a rite of passage in our community. Some of the reviews
of his code are the most petty and meaningless I've seen in my
career, bar none. It doesn't help that he doesn't budge on some
of the petty issues, thus a vicious circle gets created. In a
recent review, after his code had been pecked within an inch of
its death, it took me minutes to find two bugs that nobody had
the eyes for in spite of every token of his code having been
scrutinized.
It has to be said that Walter's recent work on Phobos has wide
appeal, is highly interesting (who doesn't like generic
algorithms?) and relatively easy to review (requires no
domain-specific knowledge apart from advanced D, perhaps some
Unicode). In my experience, similarly themed PRs by other authors
receive a similar amount of scrutiny. I'm hesitant to believe
Walter's work is being heavily scrutinized just because it's
Walter.
