All right, all right! Interim decision regarding qualified Object methods

[deadalnix]

On 12/07/2012 13:21, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>
>> What say you?
>
> It's an interesting proposal, and I like it in general.
>
> In D the C++-improved template system and the Java-copied OOP are
> partially a duplication, they sometimes offer two different ways to do
> similar things. I think this proposal reduces this duplication a bit.
>
> This whole discussion comes mostly from fixing an old Bugzilla bug. What
> other important bugs are open that risk requiring significant changes in
> D? I suggest to look for such breaking bug fixes asap, instead of
> waiting 2+ more years to find some bug that requires more important D
> changes to be fixed :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I'm thinking fo it for a while. This would be great to have a corpus of 
D code from volunteer project that can be used to test how much breakage 
does a disruptive change.

For this one, I bet not that much, but that is hard to assert without 
real world data.