[dmd-internals] What is the point of runnable/testdate.d?

[Brad Roberts]

On 8/14/2011 1:02 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:56:30 Brad Roberts wrote:
>> btw, why do you repeat your self so much in most of your emails?  It
>> makes them extra wordy and longer than n
>> ecessary.  Feels like some bad
>> training from academia.
> 
> It probably is. For essays and the like, that's definitely what you're supposed 
> to do. It doesn't work as well in smaller communications like e-mail, but I 
> still end up repeating the key points at the end or it just feels off to me.
> 
> In any case, it sounds like runnable/testdate.d should just be removed then.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

If you're trying to teach someone something, and it's a long enough work, yes.  But for emails, it feels like being
beaten upside the head repeatedly.  As if we you're trying to force us to accept your point (whatever it is, this email
was just a really good illustration of it since it was tiny).  Or like a whiny kid asking Why? Why? Why?

Sorry for being blunter than I'd like to have been.. hard to figure out how to ask questions like this politely.

Later,
Brad