I close BIP27. I won't be pursuing BIPs anymore

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 18/10/16 07:34, Walter Bright wrote:
> You've gotten user defined attributes in the language (and very
> undemocratically, I might add!), Win64 support, VC++ symbolic debug
> info, a number of improvements to C++ class support, SIMD support, SIMD
> intrinsics, pragma inline, yeah, we never listen to you :-)
>
> You've been a large influence over D, and a very positive one.

I take issue with that statement. Not with Manu being a positive 
influence, of course, but with the legitimacy of telling someone what it 
is they should care about. Andrei is known to have done it as well (with 
statements such as "choose your battles and fight them well").

You cannot tell someone volunteering his time to not care about some 
thing. This is simply not how you create a heterogeneous community.

This is also a very bad strategy. If you accept the premise that it is 
possible for something to be flawed, but for both you and Andrei to not 
understand it is so (i.e. - the premise that both you and Andrei are 
human with human failing), any system in which you can control what gets 
discussed is a system that guarantees that this flaw will never get fixed.

I understand that certain topics seem to crop up again and again, and 
the discussions around them seem circular. There are ways to prevent 
that without shutting down people.

For example, taking a page from one of my pet peeves, if anyone bringing 
up integer promotion is not dealt with "yeah, we've discussed that and 
it's pointless to bring it up", but instead is shown the counter 
examples that halted the discussion the previous time, I believe several 
things will happen:

1. People will feel they are listened to. The decision will seem (but, I 
believe, also actually be) less arbitrary.
2. People will know where to focus their attention if they wish for this 
to change
3. Someone may actually find a solution.

You cannot argue with "this will never happen". You can argue with "this 
doesn't work because of X".

Shachar