Prioritizing bug fixes & improvements to D
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Aug 26 18:52:18 PDT 2007
Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> news:fasudc$1mvc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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).
I hate those import bugs too, but are they really preventing anyone from
getting work done? It's not hard to work around usually.
--bb
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