On 6/9/2016 6:54 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 19:59:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
A DIP not being dealt with does not mean it is a bad idea. It pretty much
means we just aren't ready to deal with it at the moment. It's time may not
have come yet. But it's not going away, it'll still be there when needed. I've
found mining DIPs to be quite useful in designing the 'return ref' feature.
DIPs are a gold mine of ideas that be built upon, and I know where to find them.
So DIPs are more like idea pool and what wasn't outright rejected so far can
still be of some interest?
Of course.
For example, there have been many ref counting proposals for D (not remotely all
of them are DIPs). They've all had problems of one sort or another, but by
reviewing existing work one has a hope of coming up with a better proposal than
repeating a flawed one. Or one can take the "best of" the various proposals to
produce a better one. It becomes part of the collective knowledge around D.
