Dlist and dip1000 challenge

[Walter Bright]

On 10/23/2018 3:22 PM, 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.  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 the topic fades off into history, again.

No, it has not been pointed out so. There was one request for clarification, 
which I responded to. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19097#c5

There's not been a single comment on the PR implementation itself.


> 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.

The documentation is there for all to read.

There's no consistent practice for the documentation must be pulled before the 
implementation or vice versa.