OT: What's your favorite drink?

Mike Parker aldacron71 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 29 00:15:06 PDT 2007


Clay Smith wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> D (and DMD) desperately needs to have stable and unstable branches. 
>> The newest releases are always unstable.
>>
>> Basically, the idea behind branches is:
>>  * You can keep "new" code separate from tried-and-true code until 
>> it's ready.
>>  * Nobody will start writing all their library code against the 
>> unstable branch until it's made stable.
>>  * Ahura Mazda only listens to prayers of those who have stable and 
>> unstable branches.
>>
>> Since it would have branches, the unstable branch could add as many 
>> features as it wants, but the most important ones are:
>>  * LINKING AGAINST C++, JAVA AND .NET CODE. I cannot stress enough 
>> that D will get nowhere unless it can link against all three.
>>  * The unstable branch should use Tango. Phobos will be considered the 
>> obsolete predecessor to Phobos only.
>>  * The unstable branch can work on more general concepts, such as 
>> increasing the dynamicism of D. I'd like to see prototype-based 
>> objects or (optional) dynamic typing.
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> 
> OT:
> 
> What's your favorite drink?
> 
> ;)

scotch and water -- tastes great, less headache



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