seeding the pot for 2.0 features

Chad J gamerChad at _spamIsBad_gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 18:42:27 PST 2007


BCS wrote:
> Now that the big 1.0 is out, I think that we should start considering 
> what to put into 2.0. I don't think we need to rush anything into D yet, 
> but maybe we should start accumulating a list of things to consider.
> 
> One overall thought I had is that it seems the big killer for C++ was to 
> some extent that it is a strict superset of C. Maybe we should avoid 
> this problem and not requiter that D2.0 be backwards compatible at the 
> source level, but only at the ABI level sort of like C and D are now. 
> Anyway, just a thought.

...

The first thing that comes to my mind is explicit properties.  I believe 
they can be done without using new keywords or sacrificing much 
generality.  Eventually the implicit properties could be deprecated, 
when everyone feels they are no longer widely used.



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