D2 Closure

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steve Teale wrote:
> Just a few days ago, Walter was talking about 'the final feature'. Andrei 
> is going through the tedious and unpleasant process of finalizing TDPL 
> with his publisher. In a minute it will be March, so to get anything 
> finalized by the summer of 2010 is already looking like a stretch.
> 
> Now we have a whole new slew of suggestions for change.
> 
> I think that at some point the membership of digitalmars.D needs to 
> accept that there is a deadline, and that further discussion of the ideal 
> language refers to D3.
> 
> Another provocative way of thinking about this is that D2 is already 'E', 
> unless the faithful users of D1 and Tango are to be unceremoniously 
> dumped. In that case, the discussions that have suddenly flared up now 
> are about 'F'.
> 
> Time to choose. Will D ever be a widely used programming language, or is 
> it just a excellent vehicle for discussion of programming language 
> features?
> 
> Steve

assert(cat !in bag);

D2 has officially been frozen. There is no major breaking change we can 
make at this moment. Defining features that don't change the semantics 
of existing code is possible, but will be undocumented at least in the 
first print of TDPL.


Andrei