backporting features to D1

[Benji Smith]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> I find it hard to not take this as malice. It's uncalled for, really.
> 
> I know that having books on a language is a quite important mean to spread it. But the D2 language has to be finished when it's finished, and judging from the current discussions it may take one or more years. Speeding up its development process just for a book is wrong.

I don't see anything wrong with that. Deliverable deadlines are a common 
phenomenon in the software world.

I've often tried to tell my employers "it'll be done when it's done".

They hate that.

--benji