OT: What's your favorite drink?
Mike Parker
aldacron71 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 29 00:15:06 PDT 2007
Clay Smith wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> D (and DMD) desperately needs to have stable and unstable branches.
>> The newest releases are always unstable.
>>
>> Basically, the idea behind branches is:
>> * You can keep "new" code separate from tried-and-true code until
>> it's ready.
>> * Nobody will start writing all their library code against the
>> unstable branch until it's made stable.
>> * Ahura Mazda only listens to prayers of those who have stable and
>> unstable branches.
>>
>> Since it would have branches, the unstable branch could add as many
>> features as it wants, but the most important ones are:
>> * LINKING AGAINST C++, JAVA AND .NET CODE. I cannot stress enough
>> that D will get nowhere unless it can link against all three.
>> * The unstable branch should use Tango. Phobos will be considered the
>> obsolete predecessor to Phobos only.
>> * The unstable branch can work on more general concepts, such as
>> increasing the dynamicism of D. I'd like to see prototype-based
>> objects or (optional) dynamic typing.
>>
>> - Gregor Richards
>
> OT:
>
> What's your favorite drink?
>
> ;)
scotch and water -- tastes great, less headache
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