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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