1.0 ??

[Kyle Furlong]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> I think that's an excellent idea. If, as Walter has said, "1.0" is an 
>>> arbitrary line in the sand, tying it to a particular date gives a 
>>> rationale for associating a name to a particular release. If we can 
>>> say "a DMD 1.0 release will exist on January 1, 2007" (or at least, 
>>> 1.0 RC 1), we'd gain a lot of focus.
>>>
>>> I thought we were really close to a 1.0 release at 0.166, but 
>>> starting with the array literals in 0.167, a stable release suddenly 
>>> seems a very long way off.
>>> On the positive side, I think that array literals and variadic 
>>> templates were the two major 2.0 features which were likely to render 
>>> a lot of library code obselete.
>>>
>>> We should choose a date and stick to it. Remove the angst.
>>
>> Sounds good to me, and Jan 1, 2007 is a great date to pick.
>>
>> I've been playing a lot with the template tuple thing. It flings open 
>> some doors pretty wide to a great simplification of library code. 
>> That's why I put a priority on it. I've been fiddling with some of 
>> Andrei Alexandrescu's Loki C++ template code, and some of it shrinks 
>> by an *order of magnitude* with language support for tuples. Not only 
>> that, it becomes much more understandable <g>.
> 
> And consequently less buggy. In an early release of Loki, there was a 
> typo which meant there was a nasty bug if tuples had exactly 27 parameters.
> 
> 0.173 is an incredible release. We're getting frightening close to being 
> able to say "D templates are a superset of the C++ template *wishlist*" 
> <g>.
> 
>> Another goal of mine is support for a Spirit-like library. I used to 
>> think Spirit was of only marginal use, but I am more and more thinking 
>> that, from the right point of view, it can be core to making some 
>> ubiquitous and very powerful library tools.
> 
> I have a vague intuition that template tuples will enable some serious 
> innovation in that direction. It scares me at the same time, because 
> there's *so much* unexplored territory.

GO EXPLORE IT! /me pushes Don over the edge, into the wild new territory.