What's left to do for a stable D2?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Don wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>>> Jesse Phillips Wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jason House wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Andrei's finishing his last TDPL chapter, Sean is updating 
>>>>> std.thread(?), and Walter's been fixing forward reference and CTFE 
>>>>> bugs. What's left? 
>>>> This page[1] has been getting regular updates, so it should do a good
>>>> job answering the question.
>>>>
>>>> 1. 
>>>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#FutureDirections
>>>
>>>
>>> From this list: default struct constructors?
>>
>> Walter doesn't want. This will go down as one of the larger language 
>> incapabilities.
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> What's the reason? Does he dislike the concept, or feel it's a 
> implementation disaster, or something else?

There are concerns about implementation difficulty and also about 
muddying other parts of the language, e.g. T.init may fail.

Andrei