dmd 2.068, 2.069, 2.0xx Evil Plan going forward

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On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 04:02:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 2.068 - resolve remaining regressions and release
>
> 2.069 - translate to D. No new features, no refactoring. Only 
> regression fixes and what's already in HEAD. This should give 
> us a solid baseline. It also means that open PRs that address 
> other issues will not be pulled for 2.069.
>
> Perhaps we should name this 2.100, to signify such a milestone.
>
> 2.101+ -
> 1. Take advantage of D features to improve quality.
> 2. Go to full lazy semantic analysis of imports, rather than 
> the current "analyze them all"
> 3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means 
> so we can have a coherent process of compiling them.
> 4. Redo CTFE interpreter so it only rarely needs to allocate 
> memory. This was already done for constant folding, but now 
> it's time for the rest of the interpreter.
> 5. Get rid of reliance on the global error count. This has been 
> mostly done, it just hast to be finished.
> 6. Convert the back end to D as well.

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