i want my bounty!

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 15 03:03:43 PST 2014


On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:52:04 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
> On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:37:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> it is simply too far away effort-wise from something that can 
>> be used.
>>
>> Contributing something new to C++ standard library - now THAT 
>> is hard :) In D is simply a matter of willingness to do a 
>> quality effort, something any regular contributor will gladly 
>> help with as long as there is that willingness.
>
> Fair point. The trouble I have with D in particular is its 
> definition of 'quality'. For example, I'm unable to consider 
> THIS 'quality effort': 
> hhttps://github.com/tom-tan/phobos/commit/c7e99d9baff0749dfb334db322c5471b21a2539d 
> - it's simply fighting with the unintelligent compiler.

Quality != pretty. Ideally the compiler would be perfect, but 
it's not, so in the mean time you do what you can to provide the 
best quality package to phobos users.


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