DIP1028 - Rationale for accepting as is

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 14:37:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 13:57:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I think the source of the problem is that Walter's DIPs require 
> the community to prove that Walter's proposal is so bad that he 
> needs to reject it. Anyone else's proposal has to prove that 
> it's worthy of being added to the language. There's a big 
> perceived gap between those two. As I've said many times, it's 
> odd for someone to judge his own DIPs, and as someone that is 
> an academic administrator and runs a high-profile journal, I 
> can say this type of practice is not the norm in those areas 
> because it doesn't lead to good decisions.

I could have rejected it, and nearly did.