Import concerns revisited

[Walter Bright]

kris wrote:
> The same thing happened with Associative Arrays: you didn't bother to 
> solicit opinion on either of the two occasions when it was changed; and 
> then subsequently complained when people still found issue with you 
> alternate changes. It's still not right to this day. I see the same 
> pattern here. And for what?

I did implement it according to the suggestions - and then the people 
who made those suggestions had issue with it. So I take issue(!) with 
your statement that I did it in a vacuum. I preferred the original 
design, and the change caused me a lot of work updating things like 
dmdscript which extensively used AA's.


> Anyone would think we were trying to sabotage the language,

Nobody thinks that. We are all trying to get the best design for D 
possible. That doesn't mean we are all going to agree on what the best 
design is. There's no cause to label a difference of opinion as 
sabotage, or any of the other epithets bandied about in this 
disagreement (or some of the previous ones).