Import concerns revisited

[Regan Heath]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:16:29 -0700, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, the last time you changes things, you may recall there were a  
> flurry of posts saying "huh? what the heck happened here?". You  
> subsequently made a post noting how nobody liked AA even after you  
> changed it twice. I was present on both occasions, and it sure seemed  
> like you made the changes in a vacuum. On both ocassions.
>
>>
>>> 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).
>
> It's far beyond a difference of opinion, Walter. Just look at the swell  
> of experienced developers here literally begging for you to make a small  
> change. Instead of listening carefully with an open mind, you project a  
> closed and vacant shell. I think you'd have to agree that this is one  
> serious issue.
>
> Why do you simply stonewall it? The projection is as though you're not  
> even open to discussion.

I think you're being unfair, I'm not getting that impression.

Regan