Is D 0.163 D 1.0?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Oskar Linde wrote:
> Dave skrev:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>> John Demme wrote:
>>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the title says it all.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone recommended that 0.163 should be labelled RC1?  I think 
>>>>> this
>>>>> would be fair- hopefully it would focus attention from language 
>>>>> changes to
>>>>> finding major bugs/flaws and the "Shop's closed- let's clean up and 
>>>>> ship
>>>>> it" mentality.  It would tell people who are maintaining libraries to
>>>>> bother to update them to 0.163 so they will work with 1.0.
>>>>
>>>> This sounds quite reasonable.
>>>
>>> I agree. 0.163 seems like a solid feature base to build 1.0 libraries 
>>> around. But I wonder how long Walter will be able to restrain himself 
>>> from adding new features; I think he'd get bored after a dozen 
>>> releases containing nothing but bug fixes. <g>
>>
>> I'm actually hoping that one of the reasons for releasing 1.0 now is 
>> because Walter wants to get to work on 2.0 <g> (Not that 1.0 isn't 
>> good enough, just that it's fun to "play" :))
>>
>> I'm curious - are there really any "show stopping" type bugs out there 
>> for v1.0? By show stopping I mean bugs that completely prevent a given 
>> design pattern allowed by the current language spec.
> 
> I'd say the implicit function template instantiation limitations are 
> somewhat show stopping:
> 
> 1. IFTI doesn't work for member functions.
> 2. Partial specialization doesn't work with IFTI.
> 3. Partial template instantiation isn't allowed with IFTI.
> 4. More IFTI limitations...
> 
> Walter has acknowledged that number 2 is a bug. I don't know of any 
> workaround for number 1. Those are all hampering library development, 
> which IMHO would qualify as show stoppers for a 1.0 status.
> 
> Of course, the most important thing is to make clear which limitations 
> are meant to remain and which are to be classified as bugs.
> 
> /Oskar

What is partial specialization ? And Partial template instantiation? 
(does that come from C++?)

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