DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Format Assessment

[Walter Bright]

On 2/24/2020 12:43 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how and who makes such a decision? Is there a voting? Is there 
> a committee? Is there a structured pro/con overview and highlight of 
> blocking-points that need to be resolved?

I talk it over with Atila after the review threads are done, then decide. Voting 
is a terrible way to do engineering design, for many reasons I can list if you like.


> I mean, people spend a lot of time thinking, making suggestions, etc. and the 
> end result is: we now have nothing. Which, IMO is the worst result for all.

Not totally. I was unable to convince people that printf format validation was 
an orthogonal feature. So I went ahead and implemented that to show it had 
nothing to do with the proposal:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10812

It turned out kinda sweet, and found a huge number of latent bugs in our own 
code, proving we shoulda done that long ago :-) Bad printfs turned out to be 
much more common than I'd anticipated.


> As a community with highly skilled people I think there should be a way to come 
> to a good solution, not only a good enough. If not, this doesn't shed light on D 
> and the community...

Community input is what the review threads are for. Consensus on a good solution 
did not emerge.