Prioritizing bug fixes & improvements to D

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:fasudc$1mvc$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> The problem is, forward references also have a high cost to fixing.

They also have a high benefit: the compiler will no longer give errors (that 
are impossible to workaround without serious redeisgns) on otherwise valid 
code.

Furthermore, delaying issues that are difficult to fix means they will never 
be fixed, at least not on any reasonable timescale.  You know that with all 
the new features you're going to be introducing that there will be tons of 
bugs, probably lots of little easy ones.  Keep squashing all the little 
ones, though, and the big ones will just fester.

Another one that comes to mind is broken selective/renamed import privacy 
(bugzilla 313/314).  These are not minor issues, and if they take a lot of 
time to fix -- so be it.  I'd be happy to wait another couple of months for 
all the cool new D2 features.