[Issue 3889] Forbid null as representation of empty dynamic array

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3889



--- Comment #10 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> 2011-08-14 18:40:04 PDT ---
My point is that if it's too late to change this, then there's no point in
having the enhancement request. And I'd be very surprised if you could take
Walter into it at this point. I'm not judging whether the enhancement request
would be valuable. I'm merely saying that at this point, I think that it's too
late to make the changes for D2.

And as to enhancement requests sitting around until it becomes too late to
change things,

1. As soon as TDPL came out, it became too late to change a lot of stuff. If
there's enough value in changing it, it can still be change, but the bar is
much higher.

2. If you want changes to be made, you're going to need to discuss them in the
newsgroup and push for them to happen. You may also need to implement them (or
get someone else to implement them) and create a pull request. Enhancement
requests that just sit in bugzilla are likely to just sit in bugzilla and go
nowhere. For the most part, for them to occur, there needs to be a push for it,
and a very good set of arguments as to why the change needs to be made.

3. Given how many suggestions you're always making, I would suggest that pick
which battles you intend to fight. If you're only pushing for a couple of
enhancement requests, then you're a lot more likely to get them accepted then
if you're pushing for dozens of them. I don't know how many enhancement
requests you have sitting in bugzilla or how many you've mentioned in the
newsgroup, but you bring up new ones often enough that they risk becoming noise
that doesn't get paid attention to by any of the people who could actually make
them happen. The language is supposed to be essentially stable at this point,
and there just isn't man power to implement a deluge of enhancement requests.
So, pick whichever ones matter to you the most and push for them to get
implemented, but don't keep coming up with new enhancement requests all the
time. You obviously can if you want to, but a large portion of them are just
going to get ignored.

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