Internal and external iteration, fibers

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 08:04:47 PST 2013


On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 15:36:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:38:01AM +0100, deadalnix wrote:
> [...]
>> Anyway, I do strongly feel like we should stop adding more 
>> stuff
>> now. Too much stuff is here already, some already start to 
>> misbehave
>> together. It is probably time to consolidate the language, and 
>> keep
>> that kind of stuff for a later version.
>> 
>> After all, many language live without most of the feature D 
>> have.
>
> Yeah, as I said elsewhere in this forum, D tends to work 
> wonderfully
> well when features are used in isolation, but once you start 
> combining
> them, you quickly tread into unexplored territory, compiler 
> holes, etc..
> It's fun and cool to add new features, I'll agree, but it's 
> really time
> for us to focus on using what we already have and iron out all 
> the
> wrinkles so that we can have a product that we are proud of.
>
>
> T

D is already so feature rich. As cool as all these ideas are, at 
this stage it's hardly a priority.

Also, having a high feature introduction rate with a low usage 
rate means that we lose the benefit of the practical hindsight 
that has provided so much useful information thus far (from c++, 
c, java etc.)


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