back port opDot to D 1.0?

Don Clugston nospam at nospam.com
Sat Oct 11 07:28:46 PDT 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> u wrote:
>> I like this feature so much.
>> Is it possible to back port opDot to D 1.0?
> 
> 
> The problem is for every last feature in D 2.0, there's someone who 
> wants that and only that ported to 1.0. If I moved over opDot, what am I 
> going to say to everyone else? I move over their features too, and then 
> D 1.0 becomes 2.0 anyway. I suggest instead just moving to 2.0 <g>.

I think that some consideration should be given to those features which 
make it easier to migrate code from D1 to D2. Especially things which 
make version(D2) {...} impossible in D1 code.



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