Maintain notes for D's successor? [Was: Re: Why the @ in @safe? & UDAs]

Timothee Cour thelastmammoth at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 16:12:07 PST 2013


I'd love to have a centralized page/wiki/site that would contain:

* D design flaws
* proposed improvements (including far ranging ones)

otherwise it gets lost in emails


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Wyatt <wyatt.epp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 14:21:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> "Thread hijacking" achievement unlocked ;)
>>
>>  Now, now, I changed the title.  If this were a proper hijack, I'd be
> trying to extract a ransom (like fixed AAs). ;)
>
>
>  On topic of such wiki page - it is kind of nice to have but lot of
>> potential entries are controversial and need some serious discussion (for
>> example, I'd place optional parens there as damaging mistake but reasonable
>> people will disagree :P) before being documented. It risks being biased to
>> preferences of view editors or turn into edit wards :) I don't know what is
>> a good way to do this without devoting too much efforts.
>>
>
> I don't think it needs to be that strict.  Optional parentheses are
> something that there are mixed opinions on, so that should be noted.  It
> may be better to think of it as "things to reconsider in the next
> version"-- discuss later, once we have a lot more time with the current
> stuff and it's actually TIME to hash out the future.
>
> "Not gospel" means it's okay for things like that to be in there.  Heck,
> compare the vision for X12 with what Wayland [0] is actually shaping up to
> be: they're...rather different. ;)  (I'm aware that being "the next X11"
> wasn't Kristian's goal and it was originally an experiment to be folded
> into X.org, but reality is weird.)
>
> -Wyatt
>
> [0] http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20131108/2f59fa8b/attachment.html>


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list