Generality creep

Thu Mar 28 17:37:16 UTC 2019

On 3/28/19 1:33 PM, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 17:04:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The overall message is we got bogged down on the "wrong" side of 
>> generality - cross-cutting and nonscalable code additions to support 
>> unprincipled and low-impact corner cases.
> 
> Having a document that formally specifies what a range is and what its 
> properties are might have helped with that and a lot more. It would 
> still help with all of the issues yet to come.

Affirmative. I'm thinking of putting together a DIP for that.