stability

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message 
news:fg6iag085q4z.1pwf80bx3vys3.dlg at 40tude.net...
>
> A bug is where the current behaviour is contrary to the specification.
> An enhancement is proposed behaviour that is not documented in the
> specification.
>
> The problem we (including Walter) have is that D does not have a
> specification and therefore there is no method to determine if a given
> behaviour is by design or a mistake. All we have is "common sense", 
> "that's
> how C++/Java/C#/XXX does it", "it feels right", etc ...

Exactly.  The "struct tupleof not able to access private members" that was 
fixed in the most recent D2 update is a perfect example of this.  tupleof is 
very ill-defined in the spec, so it's not entirely clear _what_ it should 
do, so it seems kind of arbitrary to classify that ability as an enhancement 
rather than a bug.

This is the kind of stuff that would not happen with an exhaustively 
detailed spec.