What's left to do for a stable D2?

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Denis Koroskin (2korden at gmail.com)'s article
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:38:50 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> > 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
> I strongly believe D should get rid of T.init; I hope I'll find some time
> to write a proposal and a rationale for it.

Are you suggesting that we just get different syntax for it, or is the suggestion
deeper?  I don't think there's any chance of us getting rid of default
initializers this late in the game, and I think it's absolutely essential for
generic code that there be an easy way to get the default initializer for a type.