new domain: d-programming-language.org

[Don Clugston]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I've just registered it, so it can be the 'official' D site.
>>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> Is it now finally possible to _officially_ list proposed language
>> features before they get implemented in DMD?
> <snip>
> 
> Why not use Bugzilla for this?
> 
> A lot of projects that use Bugzilla welcome feature requests through it, 
> including all Mozilla projects.  It's why there's an 'enhancement' 
> severity level.

Walter said that it was an inappropriate forum for discussions about 
language features, and I agree with that (language features almost 
always require far more discussion than a browser feature). But I think 
it makes a lot of sense to put enhancements in Bugzilla once Walter has 
given an indication that he'll probably implement it. (I just did that 
for what I think is the only proposal I've made that falls into that 
category).
95% of proposals don't get any response from Walter, so I don't think 
they belong in Bugzilla. It might make sense to revive that Wiki page 
for them, though.

Other enhancements which seem to have been approved:
* array literals (for DMD 2.0).
* array expressions (for DMD 2.0).
* new 'auto' syntax for allocating classes on the stack.
* coroutines (for DMD 2.0)
* combining function pointers and delegates (for DMD 2.0).

Can anyone think of any more?

It might make sense to create a DMD2.0 product in Bugzilla to put those 
into.