DIP74 - where is at?

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 13 17:23:31 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 22:20:02 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 22:10:30 UTC, Ice Cream Madness 
> wrote:
>> The D language, does have a 'feature' creep problem.
>
> Maybe, but at this point, I think that C++ is actually getting 
> features faster than D is. We talk about adding features or 
> tweaking existing features to fix problems, but we're long past 
> the point where we're frequently adding features. If anything, 
> the typical complaint now is that we're _not_ making changes, 
> even when we've been discussing them (e.g. this very thread was 
> started to ask what the deal with a proposed change is, because 
> it hasn't gone anywhere yet, and it's a change proposed by 
> Walter and Andrei no less).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

DIP74 is also just an alternative solution to a problem that has 
a long history, and nothing is being done about it.


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