More incremental process for adding new features in D

Avrina avrina12309412342 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 15:51:52 UTC 2020


On Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 09:50:02 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 05:27:44 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Didn't Stefan give up on newCTFE?
>>
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/fyakhpjbcpzqegfevxwg@forum.dlang.org
>
> I sure hope he hasn't. It looks like he is very close to 
> finishing it and giving up now would be a terrible waste.

Sunken cost fallacy. The complexity newCTFE would add to the 
compiler isn't worth the little benefit it would add. Yes it'd be 
a waste, but that shouldn't be the reason it gets incorporated, 
just so that it wouldn't be a waste.


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