[dmd-internals] Plans for the next release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Obviously the 'shared' stuff/TLS is Walter's priority. There have a
> been a huge number of regressions in the past few releases. By now,
> there are patches for most of them. We should get all of them fixed
> in the next release.
> 
> I have finally got struct constructors working in CTFE; this fixes a 
> several structural bugs. Unfortunately it requires changes in several
>  places throughout the compiler.

This is absolutely huge because we can really claim structs have true
literals. So are there still issues with the feature?

> I've also made a magic __ctfe variable (bug 3556), but it's a very
> simple patch.
> 
> 
> By the way, some good news: there are currently 96 dead votes in 
> Bugzilla. It's quite an impressive list. 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&votes=1&bug_status=RESOLVED

What do dead votes mean?

Andrei