Release D 2.094.0
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jared771 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 21:27:19 UTC 2020
On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 21:19:02 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 21:09:55 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 October 2020 at 20:40:39 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Okay, fair enough. Should this still not have had approval
>> from either Walter or Atila before being merged in? Or is that
>> not the case for changes behind -preview?
>
> Approval is not required for -preview. It's the testing phase
> of a new feature or change. As I tried to mention earlier real
> data and experimentation is super helpful for a DIP / formal
> approval (in this case one important question answered was how
> much code in the D ecosystem would need to be changed).
>
> There's a bit of implicit approval by no objection as something
> that's worthwhile to be explored/tested, but it's only a good
> chance that it will be activated by default, not a guarantee.
Okay, fair enough. Looks like I was mistaken and thought -preview
implied that the feature will be moved out from under the switch
after a certain number of releases (as the word "preview" means
an early look at something that will be released in the future).
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