Steve Teale wrote:
Just a few days ago, Walter was talking about 'the final feature'. Andrei
is going through the tedious and unpleasant process of finalizing TDPL
with his publisher. In a minute it will be March, so to get anything
finalized by the summer of 2010 is already looking like a stretch.
Now we have a whole new slew of suggestions for change.
I think that at some point the membership of digitalmars.D needs to
accept that there is a deadline, and that further discussion of the ideal
language refers to D3.
Another provocative way of thinking about this is that D2 is already 'E',
unless the faithful users of D1 and Tango are to be unceremoniously
dumped. In that case, the discussions that have suddenly flared up now
are about 'F'.
Time to choose. Will D ever be a widely used programming language, or is
it just a excellent vehicle for discussion of programming language
features?
Steve
assert(cat !in bag);
D2 has officially been frozen. There is no major breaking change we can
make at this moment. Defining features that don't change the semantics
of existing code is possible, but will be undocumented at least in the
first print of TDPL.
Andrei
