Dlist and dip1000 challenge

Nicholas Wilson iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 23 23:56:08 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 23 October 2018 at 22:22:18 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 10/23/2018 3:10 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 
>> My improvements to DIP1000 are completely dead in the water 
>> due to lack of interest. It's impossible to make Phobos 
>> DIP1000 compatible if nobody is willing to approve the 
>> improvements.
>> 
>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8504
>
> Every time you say this I want to drive over and bonk you up 
> side the head.

Please do.

> You keep making this statement and it's almost entirely false. 
> The onus has been on you to produce specs and docs for this 
> major change to the language semantics.  You inevitably point 
> to the one issue in bugzilla, which is then pointed out to be 
> sketchy and incomplete

and not the place for documentation or specification.

> and the topic fades off into history, again.

And he wonders why!

> If you want this to make forward progress, and I think it's 
> fairly agreed that it needs to, you really need to accept that 
> it's past time to do the documentation work.

He doesn't need to, I did it for him: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8504
He just needs to review it.

> Sigh,

True dat.




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