D Development Paradigm

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Craig Black" <cblack at ara.com> wrote in message 
news:fims7s$u44$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Listening to Walter argue with everyone about const again I had to laugh. 
> Does anyone else notice this pattern?
>
> 1) People propose an idea/complaint about a language feature
> 2) Walter makes a strong case for the way D does it
> 3) People press the point but Walter is stubborn
> 4) People get tired of arguing
> 5) Many months or years pass
> 6) For unknown reasons Walter changes his mind and makes the proposed 
> change
>
> I remember a time when Walter disliked the idea of adding templates to D. 
> I also remember a time when Walter argued furiously against adding const. 
> More recently he defended at length the 3-keyword const implementation. 
> He always argues his points so adamantly that whenever he changes his mind 
> it seems like a religious conversion. :)

Inner classes, all the import features, opAssign, and implicit casts are a 
few other features I can think of that came about this way.