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

[Dicebot]

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 09:51:04 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 18:03:54 UTC, Rob T wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 17:52:12 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> I agree with this completely, but we cannot do it until 
>> there's a full implementation of a reasonably designed and 
>> followed development and release process that includes the 
>> language specification.
>>
>> --rt
>
> +1
>
> The language has reached a point where bugs in the spec are 
> more important than bugs of the implementation. In fact many 
> difficult bugs in the implementation are rooted in spec issues.

I went to stress the "followed" part. I.e. we do have quite a 
good release process description on wiki with some related parts 
also mentioned. But if it is followed as good as upon 2.061, it 
makes not difference.