Broken?

[Joseph Cassman]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 00:37:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/11/14, 11:36 PM, Steve Teale wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 18:56:15 UTC, Indica wrote:
>>> I'd like to point out that Walter and Andrei can't do it all
>>> themselves. It takes a team and part of pulling it off is 
>>> well defined
>>> goals and job descriptions with devoted people.
>>
>> This is one of the motivations for my remark. They both have 
>> probably
>> more tan enough to do without having to wade through the 
>> tremendous
>> volume of responses.
>
> I could use more tan, can't wait for the summer :o).
>
> I'm glad you brought this up and that there was some good 
> discussion following it.
>
> Walter is a very nice man. He dislikes saying "no" to people on 
> account of them getting mad at him or the language. So he'd 
> rather not answer.
>
> Lately we figured that's actually worse because it creates 
> frustration (the perception is the request/effort is ignored, 
> not acknowledged and declined). So we set to become more 
> decisive about things. You may have noticed in recent history 
> that we started more often to set the foot on the ground on one 
> topic or another.
>
> We hope that that is healthy for the community. It also means 
> for us all to accept the reality that in matters of judgment we 
> can't always do what others believe is best, and on occasion 
> (hopefully not too often!) even not what would objectively be 
> the best decision. What I'd like us to achieve and convey in 
> future debates is that whatever decision we make, we are making 
> it in full understanding of all involved arguments.
>
> The "perpetual design" stage of D has ended. We've made our 
> bed, it's time to lie in it. I foresee only one more area of 
> possible breakage - thread support, and hopefully only code 
> that was already broken should cease to compile.
>
>
> Andrei

Appreciate the change. The increased clarity is helpful. Thanks.

Joseph