compile-time regex redux

[janderson]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> kris wrote:
>>> Surely some of the others long-term concerns, such as solid debugging 
>>> support, simmering code/dataseg bloat, lib support for templates, 
>>> etc, etc, should deserve full attention instead? Surely that is a 
>>> more successful approach to getting D adopted in the marketplace?
>>
>> Those are all extremely important, too.
> 
> I wish to add that if you look at the changelog, the bread and butter 
> issues (see the list of bugs fixed) get a solid share of attention.

Personally I think you've got a good balance going.  A lot of bug fixes 
and a few cool features to keep peoples interest in D is a good way to 
go.  I appreciate that.

You've gotta really love working on D to have kept up this solid pace 
for so long.

-Joel