I closed a very old bug!

[Simen Kjærås]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 22:01:43 UTC, Mark wrote:
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 19:45:06 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255
>>
>> I think it would be great to reduce the median age of open 
>> issues, and the median longevity of closed issues. I'm in 
>> talks with Sebastian about publishing such metrics. One 
>> obvious way to improve that is to look at old bugs - I suspect 
>> many are simple or have been fixed already.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> What about #5337 [1] ? It's the oldest Phobos bug in Bugzilla, 
> from 2010. It seems to be a proposal for tail-const support for 
> Phobos ranges, accompanied by an implementation. Should 
> something be done about that? I never felt the need for 
> tail-const in the language.
>
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5377

As the person who filed that bug, I say close it. It was filed in 
response to clamor in the newsgroup about how D was unusable 
without tail const - an assertion that has proven baseless.

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   Simen