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

[Dmitry Olshansky]

25-Jan-2013 13:49, Don пишет:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 20:52:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/24/2013 5:42 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> I agree with you but Walter is very afraid of breaking code.
>>
>> The history of what happens when D code breaks because of language
>> changes is not a happy one.
>
> I don't believe that is true. Remember when 'bit' was removed from the
> language?
> It didn't cause any complaints at all.
>
> This attitude is very harmful. Our real problem is that we're not making
> promises about what we won't change. When we haven't made such promises,
> we then become fearful of changing *anything*.
> Then we bend over backwards to avoid changing things that actually
> nobody cares about. This is a recipe for locking bugs into the language
> forever.
>
> Instead, we should be trying to continuously expand the things we
> guarantee will continue to work. Ideally we would be precise about the
> things that are likely to change, and which we don't currently guarantee.

+1

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Dmitry Olshansky