Managing the review queue

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Mar 28 14:36:37 PDT 2011


KennyTM~:

> Python's future statement provides features that will certainly be 
> enabled. It's a feature to provide smoother code compatibility with 
> earlier versions. Every decision is pretty much settled when it is 
> available in __future__, and the only step left is to enable it by default.
> 
> This is not the case for incubator/foo/experimental. There is no 
> guarantee that the module must be voted in, nor the interface will be 
> the same when transitioning to std.

You are right, there are important differences.

Beside a Phobos module like std.experimental, I'd like a way to activate experimental features in D too. There is a similar feature in Haskell too, and it's used a lot.

Bye,
bearophile


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