Unofficial wish list status.(Jul 2008)

[Don]

Sean Kelly wrote:
>> so wut is that stuff u want in d. u haven't even tried d2 so it loox like u r interested more in bitchin' than in making real
> suggestions. now seriously. speak up. what is it that u as a member of the community wanna say and walter doesn't
> listen.
> 
> I've tried D2.  I've read the spec as well.  I simply don't like it.  

By D2, I imagine you just mean "the const system"?
(Most of the other things in D2 seem to have been very popular; if D2- 
without-const was released, I reckon most of the community would start 
using it).

It seems to me that the view of the community is "We though we wanted 
const. But now that we've seen what const involves, we don't want it.".

At the very least, it's a public relations disaster from the point of 
view of the language designers. They are assuming that with more time 
and education, the legitimate complaints about first const system will 
be forgotten, and the const system will be embraced by the community.
But there is a very big risk here -- what if it is NOT eventually 
accepted? What if the community concensus remains that const is just too 
complicated, without enough benefit? And the language designers remain 
steadfastly devoted to const? That's a catastrophic scenario, and 
unfortunately not unlikely.

The fact that someone as senior in the community as yourself is 
expressing profound dissatisfaction indicates that the risk is very real.