D 1.0 for Jan 1, 2007
Charlie
charlies at nowhere.com
Sat Nov 11 09:02:11 PST 2006
Yes, for some reason this bothers me to no end. *Please* *please*
update this for 1.0 ( the double meaning of 'auto' ).
Charlie
Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> Can you clarify for the rest of us what you consider this milestone
>>> meaning / containing? What changes at that point in time? What do
>>> you consider finished, frozen, whatever?
>>>
>>> This has come up each time a 1.0 point has been suggested, with lots
>>> of potential things to fall into the bucket, but I don't recall ever
>>> seeing your point of view.
>>>
>>> I'm purposely not including my thoughts or any of the past thoughts
>>> from other people since I'm seeking a fairly complete response from
>>> you rather than a short agreement sort of answer.
>>
>> Feature complete is one of those mirage things, the list of what needs
>> to be added to D is never ending and ever changing. So my intention is
>> to straighten out what we've got now as best I can, call it 1.0, and
>> we can all move on doing continuous improvement.
>
> One aspect of a 1.0 release is how to handle deprecation of current
> features. Perhaps any outstanding "to do" items that may affect
> existing functionality could be addressed, at least in the spec, before
> Jan 1st? The only feature I can think of offhand is the double-meaning
> of "auto" vs. the "MyClass c = MyClass()" syntax you mentioned a while
> back, but there may be others.
>
>
> Sean
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