Stable D version?

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Tue Apr 23 13:32:05 PDT 2013


On 04/23/2013 10:21 PM, eles wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 18:57:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 4/23/13 2:42 PM, eles wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 14:26:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> I was mainly referring to the fact that C++ succeeded in spite of
>> having initially an incomplete specification. Nowadays the
>> expectations are much higher.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> As long as you keep changing the language, no specification will ever be
> complete.
>

It is the other way round. As long as there is no specification, there 
are no language changes, as everything can be cast as a bug fix towards 
implementing some imaginary specification that is different for each dev.

> C++ will long advance. D must be out and living before C++14. Then, it
> will be too late.

I think there is no reason to assume that C++ can be fixed.

> My view.

Obviously.


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