Some questions now D2 is frozen

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> Andrei said in the 'D2 Closure' thread that D2 has officially been 
> frozen, and that he and Walter has made a lot of desicions on their own 
> over the past few weeks.
> 
> That makes me, and I'm sure others as well, curious as to what these 
> desicions were, and what the final D2 spec looks like.  I'd hate to have 
> to wait for TDPL to come out, and the compiler releases catching up, to 
> find out. ;)
> 
> So, Walter, Andrei, and anyone else in the know:
> 
> 1. Will array literals be immutable?

No, but the compiler may take different decisions on allocation 
depending on usage.

> 2. Have you found new names for the "ugly" keywords? (__gshared, __traits)

No, but we're not bound to those names. TDPL does not present the most 
obscure features.

> 3. Have you found a "rule" for determining whether an attribute is a 
> keyword or an @annotation?

No.

> 4. Will private members inside eponymous templates work?

Yes.

> 5. Will opIndex and opSlice be merged?

No.

> 6. Do arrays still have the built-in 'reverse' and 'sort' properties?

Should deprecate those.

> 7. Are there any changes that haven't been mentioned or discussed on the 
> NG yet?

Don't think so.


Andrei