When is it time for a 1.0 feature freeze?

[Fredrik Olsson]

Søren J. Løvborg skrev:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> I think that sometime soon, we should finally make it more firm that "this 
>> is it for 1.0 language features".  Once this is done, then we can finally 
>> concentrate more on fixing compiler bugs and getting the spec up to 
>> scratch (both cleaning up spelling/grammar and cleaning up what is 
>> ill-defined) without having to worry too much about creating even more 
>> work for ourselves in the process.
> 
> The only thing I can think off that should be fixed before 1.0 is the "auto" 
> keyword.
> 
I can also think of allowing properties as lvalue:
foo.bar += 42;

Array literals:
bar ~= [1,5,42];

Struct literals:
baz = {"hej", 42};


Those and the lack of sets and ranges are top on my list. The small 
stuff that can reduce code size in half. The only 100% foolproof way to 
write bug-free code is; not to write any. So the closer to no code, the 
better :).


// Fredrik Olsson