Library standardization

[Bruno Medeiros]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 25/04/2008, Bruno Medeiros <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
>>  And since you are a person that (frequently) wishes to comment on D's
>> design, and make language change proposals,
> 
> We can all make proposals.
> 
> However, so far as I am aware, only /one/ of my proposals has ever
> been taken up. (That was the proposal that "const T" should mean the
> same thing as "const(T)"). All the rest have fallen by the wayside,
> because I'm not the one who gets the final say.
> 
> I'm not the one you have to convince!

I meant that it was important for the consideration of others that read 
and review your proposals, not just for Walter, or for the actual 
approval of the proposal.

Although it's rare, sometimes people came up with proposals that go 
against the stated goals of D. Like a proposal to remove pointers from 
the language because they are not necessary and we already have class 
references, and 'ref'-kind references. Indeed pointers don't add any 
expressiveness to the language, but they allow for optimizations that 
are otherwise not possible, and allowing the writing of fast and 
low-level code is one of the goals of D. (this is an extreme example, 
but I have seen other not-so-extreme examples)

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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