Types: The Next Generation (Was: Why is phobos so wack?)

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/10/2017 04:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> 
> Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I wouldn't love to have it in D 
> (assuming it was all well-fleshed out and didn't have big problems). I 
> just wanted to be crystal clear that I'm merely discussing a langauge 
> design idea here rather than coming in saying "Hey, you people should 
> all like this idea and go implement it put it into D!!!" It's easy for 
> things to get taken that way here, and can result in knee-jerk reactions 
> and otherwise derailing of what's really only intended as a theoretical 
> academic discussion. If something *were* to come of it, and it worked 
> great, and everybody was happy, then fantastic. That's just not what I'm 
> bringing it up for, that's all.

I especially wanted to avoid any the "How dare you even consider 
speaking of something without fully implementing it first!" that tends 
to be common here. (Speaking of, *that* sort of thing is far more 
unprofessional than the mere "bad words" some people are so terrified of).