std.locale

Georg Wrede georg.wrede at iki.fi
Mon Mar 2 01:42:51 PST 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> We've had Walter make nice features to D that were laborious to 
>> create, only to see nobody use them. It's happened, ask him.
> 
> Sure. Often the only way to see if a feature is useful is to actually 
> implement it and see what happens. Some features have succeeded and 
> found uses far beyond my expectations (CTFE, string mixins) while others 
> have pretty much languished (design by contract, complex numbers).
> 
> 
>> *Now* is not the time to do that again.
> 
> To some extent, we can't predict that. But I did find your arguments 
> pretty strong.

LOL :-)



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