Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 23:47:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/10/2012 3:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Monday, December 10, 2012 13:50:47 Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Why? (It's being heavily used by some people.)
>>
>> It hasn't even been properly worked out yet, and new features 
>> like that
>> shouldn't be being introduced in the main branch. It's not at 
>> all ready for
>> general consumption, and if it's in there, people are going to 
>> start using it
>> and then complaining when their code breaks when we change it 
>> later. It's the
>> sort of thing that should be on a separate branch and not in 
>> master. Even
>> worse, if the new stable branch that we've been talking about 
>> includes this,
>> then you'll have programmers programming with it for months 
>> before they get
>> the updates with the design that we're actually going to end 
>> up with, meaning
>> that that much more code will be written for that much longer 
>> with an
>> incomplete feature, waiting to be broken when the feature is 
>> actually updated
>> in the version of the compiler that they're using.
>
> We've debated this feature at length in various threads. It's 
> under heavy use by some people. It does not break any existing 
> code. I don't see any unresolved issue that should delay its 
> incorporation.

It's still experimental and should be marked as such: it's just 
not ready for production. I can envision that in a few months, 
some people using it heavily will report that it's ugly and 
interacting badly with other features.

You just can't decide that such a feature is ready for production 
without having a feedback after several months of usage by 
several users.