Final by default?

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 04:24:01 UTC, Manu wrote:
> You and Andrei are the only resistance in this thread so far. 
> Why don't you
> ask 'temperamental client' what their opinion is? Give them a 
> heads up,
> perhaps they'll be more reasonable than you anticipate?
> Both myself and Don have stated on behalf of industrial clients 
> that we
> embrace breaking changes that move the language forward, or 
> correct clearly
> identifiable mistakes.

As the CTO of SR Labs, with a huge D2 codebase in production 
products, I agree with Manu, and I'm stating that we will be 
happy to spend some time updating deprecated features if the goal 
is a better language.

- Paolo Invernizzi