backporting features to D1

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 16 14:37:00 PDT 2008


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 11 de octubre a las 12:51 me escribiste:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> But features that have
>>> been tested in D2 and which are backwards compatible with D1?  Why
>>> would anyone be against those?
>> Because then you lose the definition of what is D 1.0. I believe there is 
>> considerable value not only in a stable compiler, but a stable language 
>> definition.
> 
> What's wrong with calling this new language D 1.1 for example?

Nothing except I don't have a staff of hundreds to test and maintain 3 
versions of D.


> Again, did you ever saw how Python evolves? Really, it's really good.


No, I haven't looked at it.




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