On 11/11/2015 06:06 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:25:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A redesign of template instantiation is necessary, and Walter needs to
be fully involved in it. However, please give it time.
I'd still opt to first refactor the existing code into something that's
understandable before starting to redesign the whole topic. Maybe the
design is already fine but buried by complex to understand control flow.
Also just redesigning this on a blank sheet will easily miss important
edge cases. And last but not least if we can't come up with a better
design we'd still have a better codebase.
We have to come up with a better design. Not coming with a better design
is not an option. Also there is ample evidence that the months-long
process of patching things as problems are found does not work. -- Andrei
