It seems pure ain't so pure after all

[Tommi]

On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 23:31:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> No offense, but a feature proposal is pretty pointless if it's 
> a "this would
> have been nice had we had thought of it when we could have 
> easily added it." A
> feature proposal is only relevant if it's really an attempt to 
> change the
> language now.
>
> If we were really back at the drawing board, there are plenty 
> of other things
> which would change, some of which could completely change how 
> some things work
> and possibly invalidate a feature which might seem reasonable 
> now but wouldn't
> work with the other changes (which probably isn't the case 
> here, but still,
> discussing what could have been doesn't really buy us anything 
> IMHO).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I don't think you should stop trying to write the best language 
specification you can just because you're past the point of it 
being implementable by this language. Call the specification D++ 
and maybe some day someone will pick it up and try to implement 
it.