Discussion Thread: DIP 1044--Enum Type Inference--Community Review Round 1

[Dukc]

On Sunday, 20 November 2022 at 09:39:11 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 20.11.22 02:00, deadalnix wrote:
>> 
>> I have very simple feedback.
>> 
>> STOP CHANGING THE GOD DAMN SYNTAX!
>> STOP, STOP, STOP, and if you still have some doubt, STOP!
>> 
>> Every time, it breaks a ton of tools.
>> 
>> It's not worth it.
>> ...
>
> It's not worth freezing the language over temporary tool 
> breakage. Just don't update the compiler until the tools have 
> caught up.

I agree. Besides, the change at syntax phase is as simple as it 
gets: dollar with letters/underscore following it must be 
considered a symbol name. All other changes are at semantic level 
a syntactic tool does not have to worry about.