D 2.062 release

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-19 07:25, Kapps wrote:
> Personally, I just wish there was a quick blurb at the top of the
> changelog indicating the highlights of this release. For example, with
> 2.058, the very first two lines of the changelog were:
> "Add new => lambda syntax."
> "Allow 1.userproperty syntax. NOTE: 1.f is no longer a float literal,
> add a 0."
>
> You can look at that and decide "Awesome, new lambda syntax and UFCS!".
> You get a quick 10-20 lines indicating what you need to know about that
> release, what's interesting about it, and what the new features or most
> important bug fixes were. For the people who care, you can then see bug
> fixes / larger list of changes at the bottom (I personally don't have a
> preference as to whether they'd be on the same page or just a bugzilla
> link). However the really important thing is the quick blurb at the top.
>
> For example, with this release, something about how 'in ref' is now
> supported, how you can document unittests and have them appear with the
> documentation of the above symbol, improved JSON output, and unittests
> being allowed in interfaces. This is just a quick 10 line overview of
> some of the highlights of this release. Not necessarily just new
> features either. For example, if example bug#314 was fixed, there is
> absolutely no way I would know about it given that it's buried in the
> list of bug fixes, even though it has affected almost every single D
> user at one point and would definitely be considered a highlight.

I agree. I think documenting mixins was added in this release.

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/Jacob Carlborg