Short list with things to finish for D2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s
> article
>> 6. There must be many things I forgot to mention, or that cause
> grief to
>> many of us. Please add to/comment on this list.
>> Andrei
> 
> I assume we're mostly talking about spec stuff, not implementation
> stuff.  Nonetheless, to the extent that the GC API is considered
> part of the language spec, I think we need to fix that.
> 
> 1.  My precise heap scanning patch has some ripple effects into the
> GC API and could affect what is done with the `new` operator.
> Therefore, we might not want to postpone this until after D2 is
> final.
> 
> 2.  We should probably tighten up the spec to make sure that a
> moving, fully precise, etc. GC can be implemented at some point in
> the future without modifying the spec after D2 is declared gold.

I think you can safely work on that asynchronously. TDPL won't include a 
"GC API Reference" - for that kind of stuff I think it's ok to refer to 
the online documentation.

Thanks for working on this!

Andrei