OT: What's your favorite drink?
Chris Nicholson-Sauls
ibisbasenji at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 12:00:41 PDT 2007
Mike Parker wrote:
> 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
Bourbon and RC... god I'm such a Kentuckian...
-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
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