accept @pure @nothrow @return attributes

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 09:18:19 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 08:30:46 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
> wrote:
>> People are very quick to respond to posts without fully 
>> reading them and the meat of the content gets lost in a slew 
>> of responses that miss the point.  I'm not sure what I'm doing 
>> wrong or how this can be improved.  But this pattern seems to 
>> keep happening no matter what topic is discussed.  Not sure 
>> how to solve this...I'll think on this tomorrow.
>
> Isn't it more that one or two individuals don't get your point 
> and keep arguing while the others got it?
>
> Anyway, the discussions on the rust dev list appears to be more 
> educated than on the D forums, so maybe the people with a 
> theoretical background gave up on D and was piqued by the 
> potential given by linear typing? I think so... but they might 
> get fed up with it eventually and in the mean time D has the 
> opportunity to get the semantics right...
>
> From a political perspective it is better to leave the syntax 
> as it is until the semantics of the language are frozen. If you 
> keep changing the syntax then people will eventually be fed up 
> with changes and it might be more difficult to push through a 
> full redesign... Which in my opinion is needed.
>
> It is better to stay 25% flawed then eventually clean it up so 
> that it is only 5% flawed, than to go from 25% bad to 20% bad 
> to 15% and then people get fed up with changes and it is frozen 
> at 15% flawed.
>
> The problem in the D community is that there is no planning. 
> Syntax clean up should be a workgroup effort, not a metamorphic 
> mutation process.

Interesting points.  Thanks for the response, it's a relief to 
hear people making sense :)