backporting features to D1
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 16 14:37:00 PDT 2008
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 11 de octubre a las 12:51 me escribiste:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> But features that have
>>> been tested in D2 and which are backwards compatible with D1? Why
>>> would anyone be against those?
>> Because then you lose the definition of what is D 1.0. I believe there is
>> considerable value not only in a stable compiler, but a stable language
>> definition.
>
> What's wrong with calling this new language D 1.1 for example?
Nothing except I don't have a staff of hundreds to test and maintain 3
versions of D.
> Again, did you ever saw how Python evolves? Really, it's really good.
No, I haven't looked at it.
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