Discussion Thread: DIP 1032--Function Pointers and Delegate Parameters...--Final Review

[Avrina]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 21:06:03 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 10:40:36 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 20:03:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 13:21:33 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>>>> I was expecting a response like this. Anyone not satisfied 
>>>> with ...
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>> If the goal is to reduce attribute bloat, there are better 
>>>> ways to achieve this that don't case breaking change. As 
>>>> well as that affect more than just delegates passed as a 
>>>> parameter.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What would that be?
>>
>> You can search the forums, lots of good ideas get brought up, 
>> no point in repeating them. Instead we get this broken as DIP 
>> cause Walter encountered who knows what situation that 
>> inconvenienced him.
>
> If every idea easily got into D we would be no different from 
> C++. I'm sure everything that got added in C++ had a convincing 
> reason in the moment to be in there.

Ironic you say that in this thread, while that statement isn't 
directed at this DIP :).