D is our last hope
GrimMaple
grimmaple95 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 09:47:56 UTC 2023
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 00:02:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Every organized and professional product I know of requires a
> specification to come with every formal proposal for a language
> change.
Not the case with ImportC apparently, when you can just show up,
make a 5K LOC PR out of thin air, mark it "trivial" and have 0
spec or rationale prepared. Good double standards bro.
> They're not that much work, they're certainly a lot easier than
> an implementation.
Don't you just go around assuming what is easy for people and
what isn't. And it's not even a question of being easy, it's a
question of wasting time on something that you would just veto
anyway, so why bother?
> It is normal for organized language communities to require a
> spec for any language changes. I'm not aware of any that don't.
Here is an example of such language: D. Because, apparently, spec
is only requried when you personally feel like it, otherwise it's
whatever goes.
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