Switch-case made less buggy, now with PATCH!

[Leandro Lucarella]

retard, el 23 de noviembre a las 17:34 me escribiste:
> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:18:05 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
> > Andrei Alexandrescu, el 22 de noviembre a las 17:11 me escribiste:
> >> Anyway, I think Chad's proposal has not been discussed here before
> >> being implemented, which makes it more difficult to accept.
> > 
> > I think the exact opposite. It's much easier to accept (or reject)
> > something that have an actual implementation. You can talk about
> > something real, not vaporware. I wish all proposals made here were
> > proposed with a patch.
> > 
> > Of course that's a lot of work and people usually don't want to make the
> > effort to write a patch if chances are it will be rejected. But if the
> > rules are clear ("your patch can be rejected"), I think you should
> > encourage feature proposal with proof-of-concept patch.
> 
> The fact that a patch already exists does not make the design decision 
> any better. If we all started writing crappy, contradicting extensions 
> and Walter had to accept everything, D would quickly sink. There are only 
> a handful of active members in this community that have enough experience 
> and skills to propose any good features at this point of d development 
> cycle.

And what I said above doesn't contradict this, on the contrary.

In other OSS projects, almost the *only* way to ask for a feature is
providing a patch. Then the feature is discussed (and most of the time
discarded). Having a patch only improves the decision making process.

Again, and in case it's hard to understand, I'm not saying the any patch
should be accepted. Even more, I don't think Chad's patched should be
accepted, I also think introducing case !: is a bad idea. I'm just saying
that the patch was mostly turned down because he didn't asked for other
devs permission to make the patch, not because of the quality of the patch
(or the feature) itself. That discourages people to make patches, and
I think that's *really* bad.

Again, that was only my perception, maybe this was not the intention of
the people who wrote the messages.

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