Priority DIP for Draft Review: Argument Ownership and Function Calls

[Olivier FAURE]

On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 10:51:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/158

I'm going to be candid here:

Based on past experience, I'm worried that:
- This DIP will generate a lot of negative feedback.
- Walter will ignore most of that feedback, or cherry-pick a few 
arguments that resonate with him, and ignore the others.
- People will ask for a more formal specification, and Walter 
will refuse on the ground that he isn't a PL theorist / that the 
DIP is only a first step towards a more complete borrowing scheme.
- Walter will not lay out what that complete borrowing scheme 
looks like, on the grounds that it's too early to tell.
- Because of its importance for future features, the DIP is going 
to be rushed despite the unnadressed criticisms.

Can we get some assurance this isn't going to be the case?

I'm particularly interested in flow analysis features, and I 
think I have something to contribute, but I don't want to spend a 
large amount of effort debating and suggesting alternatives if I 
expect to be stonewalled.