D versionning

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 04:59:08 PDT 2012


On 17/07/2012 06:37, RivenTheMage wrote:
> On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 22:14:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
>> Going to v3 would mean incrementing the 2.
>> We have _no_ intention of doing that for years
>> to come.
>
> Small steps are perfect for many projects, but - in my opinion -
> not for a programming language specification (and reference
> implementation). Big leaps are better.
>
> Look at C# - 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...
>
> I'm aware of counterexamples (like PHP), but these are bad
> examples to follow.

Yeah sure. Nothing was released between 3.0 and 4.0 for instance. Not a 
single patch.


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