@property - take it behind the woodshed and shoot it?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/24/2013 12:58 PM, mist wrote:
> <rage>Please. Go to http://wiki.dlang.org/Release_Process . Read it. Answer the
> question "Hm, does having well-defined release process with long-term support
> versions help with instability of breaking changes?". And if answer is "no" then
> you probably should have contributed your opinion there for a long time, because
> it _should_ to.</rage>
>
> Really, all this backwards-compatibility talk is a crap. There is no way we can
> say current D design is final and solid and can be polished without any breaking
> changes. We should not argue about how bad breaking is. We should discus how to
> do those changes in the least harmful way.

Having a release process does not remove the pain of breaking changes that make 
users miserable because their older code no longer compiles.