DIP 1010--Static foreach--Accepted
Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 17 05:39:07 PDT 2017
On 7/16/17 9:10 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations to Timon Gehr. Not only was his "Static foreach" DIP
> accepted, it picked up a good deal of praise from Walter & Andrei. I've
> added my summary to the Review section of the DIP, but I'll quote it
> here in full:
>
> "This DIP was accepted by the language authors. Both Proposal 1 and
> Proposal 2 were accepted. Evaluation of the suggested future
> improvements has been put off until some future date when sufficient
> experience with the implementation has been accumulated.
>
> Regarding Proposal 1, they find it integrates well with the rest of the
> language and falls within the spirit of D. They see it more as the
> removal of a limitation than the addition of a feature, and like that it
> reuses the syntax and semantics of existing language entities (`alias`
> and `enum`). They see Proposal 2 as the core of the DIP, finding that it
> is well-motivated and liking that it reuses elements of Proposal 1.
>
> On the whole, they believe that this DIP obeys the rule of least
> astonishment in that most of the examples work as expected and are easy
> to understand by lowering to the pre-DIP language. They also say that
> the examples are a good sanity check to ensure that the feature fulfills
> its envisioned applications, and that the DIP is exceptionally well
> written. This should be read as a note to future DIP authors that they
> will not be wrong to use this DIP as a model."
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1010.md
Awesome! Super glad and looking forward to this in 2.076? ;)
-Steve
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