On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 12:14:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/4/17 12:26 AM, Nick B wrote:
Can one assume that Walter is thinking about deadalnix's
detailed proposal above, and that he will give a formal
response, once he has given it serious thought, and discussed
it with Andrei ?
As a matter of procedure no, a forum post will not be followed
by a formal response. The DIP process ensures a formal response.
The post is far from what one would call a proposal, let alone
a detailed one. It is a sketch of an idea that addresses a
complex matter without minding a large number of details.
That's totally fine; the whole discussion opener was also
informal and lacking details. It's just that we can't work on
someone else's vague idea.
I encourage anyone interested in pursuing this idea to work on
a DIP.
Thanks,
Andrei
In fairness, the DIP process is painfully slow (which I can
suppose can be seen as either a good thing or a bad thing).
DIP1003[0] has yet to be commented on, despite it being a simple
and easily understandable change. Yes, during that time Dicebot
quit as DIP manager, but when he quit this DIP was already over
the deadline for comment by a couple weeks.
I went in not expecting a lot in terms of promptness and with the
understanding that it was such a trivial and low-priority change
that a prompt result was not really necessary (and thus I was
willing to wait patiently), and yet I admit that in spite of all
my goodwill I was frustrated by the lack of response after over 2
months.
My point is that I completely understand why someone would not
want to bother going through the DIP process.
1. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1003.md
