backporting features to D1

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley:
>> and Andrei wants the language to be fixed by the time it comes out
>> so the book doesn't become outdated before it's published.
> 
> Is a book about a language becoming more important than the language
> itself now? Ah ah, this is very funny :o) I'm seeing stranger and
> stranger things in this newsgroup :-)

I find it hard to not take this as malice. It's uncalled for, really. 
The point is that a publisher deadline is pretty hard. Missing one makes 
unhappy a lot of people who've done the logistics and marketing legwork 
in anticipation for the deadline.

So the book describing the language will have to be out on a schedule, 
and we'd of course like it to describe the language accurately, in 
particular not talk about features that aren't yet implemented.

The book is important maybe even in disproportion because we haven't 
published pretty much anything about a large body of work we've done, 
some of which is quite novel. David Wagner's citation of my slides is 
the first time I ever saw that a serious paper ever cited a slide deck. 
It's a testament to both the quality of our work and the lack of 
publications of it. I suggest people with an interest in writing to try 
their hand at writing articles on what they find noteworthy in D.


Andrei