<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com" target="_blank">digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Because the compiler and library releases go in lockstep we'd have to wait for another release cycle to even field-test @nogc. Not acceptable really.<br>
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Phobos ends up battle testing every new feature and if it wasn't new features will be definitely shipped in a broken state. Let's not forget that new D frontend features still have many bugs that stay undetected even after testing in Phobos.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Dmitry Olshansky<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Surely the compiler should always rely on the previous compiler + standard library versions.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Is there really a valid reason not to do this? Surely if the dog food is so bad no one should be eating?</div></div>