Extended Type Design: further examples

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:05:29 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For
>> Email) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I wish it wasn't so hard to get a simple straight answer from the 
>> experts.
> 
> I think discussion would much improved if big changes like this actually 
> came with a detailed proposal on a website somewhere that people could 
> refer to and which would actually be updated to reflect vague points 
> clarified during discussion.  As it is, there are a lot of points that 
> have been clarified, and questions answered, but they're strewn across 
> 100 different posts.  I'm pretty lost.  I gave up trying to follow this 
> myself.  I'm hoping you'll figure it out and post something coherent. :-)
> 
> On the bright side, thanks to Andrei, at least there *is* an open 
> discussion going on about the feature before it just shows up in the 
> change log as a done deal.

I agree. (How couldn't I? Flattery goes a long way :o).)

Maybe we could imitate what other languages do, e.g. Perl has the famous 
"apocalypses" that describe each language feature in detail.


Andrei