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

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-07-10 22:19, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> 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).

Fair enough.

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/Jacob Carlborg