Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

[Manu]

On 19 October 2013 21:29, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 18, 2013 7:45 PM, "Andrei Alexandrescu" <
> SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> >
> > Walter scrambled to implement UDAs in a rush and breaking protocol in
> order to win a corporate D user, Remedy Games. It was a major, exceptional
> event. Would you have preferred the protocol to have been followed at the
> cost of Remedy?
> >
>
> I would have preferred Remedy working with the community, rather than
> talking behind closed doors to those who concern only them.  And I say this
> as someone who was part involved before UDAs and the public announcement
> came into the picture.
>
Surely you can appreciate that we weren't ready for it to be made public
information. We didn't really have much choice. There's always company
bureaucracy to deal with.

What I did find interesting, in reflection at dconf, was that Manu
> countered all arguments (that I could recall) Walter made to keeping the
> deprecation in place.
>
I had no idea about the deprecation of the original syntax. I don't recall
ever being a party to any discussion on that matter. The community clearly
voted for @attribute syntax, and as soon as it was done, I switched all our
code over.
I wasn't personally precious about which way the syntax went. We just
needed the feature, and it seems to have been successfully used by many
others since us too, so I really hope most people agree it was a valuable
addition, despite materialising fairly abruptly.
It's also not like I was the first to come up with it either, people had
been talking about attributes for years, I just gave it a nudge.
If we were the only people that *ever* used the initial (experimental)
C#-style [attribute] syntax, then it should be removed and put an end to
this criticism, since I changed our code over within minutes of the new
syntax being made available :)
There's probably no D code anywhere that uses the original C#-style syntax.
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