Why is D unpopular, redux.

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue May 24 23:31:58 UTC 2022


On 5/24/2022 3:45 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 24.05.22 18:20, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/24/2022 12:43 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>> The original example no longer compiles, there are others in that thread. It 
>>> has not been fixed!
>>
>> Other issues should get their own bugzilla issue.
> 
> You are twisting my words. It's not another issue, it's another _example_. It's 
> just that the pull request only fixed some special case.
> 
> But sure, not really worth arguing. Whether or not the 15 year old bugzilla 
> issue remains open or is replaced by a new duplicate report does not change much.

If the fix did not fix other cases, then they are separate bugs. They certainly 
may be related, but if they require more code, they are separate.

Our whole use of github and bugzilla revolves around a 1:1 correspondence 
between bug fixes and PRs. A 1:many and many:1 is just not manageable.



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