Small Vectors Proposal
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Thu Feb 1 11:16:54 PST 2007
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> It is a change that I personally think should be made. Walter devised
> the one cast per class rule out of caution when facing an issue known to
> be potentially disastrous. Generally, the "when in doubt, don't put it
> in" approach turned out to be a winner for D in general --- the "length"
> Chernobyl disaster notwithstanding :o).
Yes, it's the "when we don't know what the semantics of this combination
of features should be, make it an error" rule. That way, when it
sometimes eventually becomes clear what those semantics should be, we
don't have a backwards compatibility problem.
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