backporting features to D1

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I think there was some hope that making a really stable D1.0 would
> somehow make D1.0 an attractive choice for companies.  But come on.
> It was a stretch when D1 was just a niche language.  Now it's a niche
> language that's also obsolete.

People made it clear they were not going to use a language for
production if it got new features every month. D 1.0 is a complete and
very usable language, with the goal of being stable and bug free.

You can't have it both ways - you cannot have a stable language while
constantly adding features.