An old topic (pun intended)
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Thu Oct 13 11:10:28 PDT 2011
On Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:57 bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
> > IIRC, old was rejected because it added extra
> > complication for little value.
>
> It add some complexity, but I can't agree that it adds little value, this
> is a mistake. The prestate increases significantly the usefulness of
> contract programming. And I don't remember it being rejected, I just
> remember the discussion stopped, like a river dying and drying up in a
> desert. Do you have a link of a post where it was rejected? I think there
> is an enhancement request about prestate in Bugzilla, and it is open
> still. Before actually rejecting this feature, it will need one more good
> discussion in the main D newsgroup.
I'd have to go digging, but from what I recall, it was pretty clear that it
wasn't happening. But since it's not a feature that I care about at all, it's
not something that I've tracked particularly closely.
- Jonathan M Davis
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