Developing a plan for D2.0:
Jason House
jason.james.house at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 06:11:27 PDT 2009
Sadly, this has been the writing on the wall for some time. For me, the critical question for D2 is "How will unique be handled?". Andrei favors a library-based struct-only solution (Where structs with non-immutable pointers/references are disallowed)
I'm surprised to hear that Bartosz's ownership scheme wouldbe adopted at all. I hope it does, I like it.
Nick B Wrote:
> Bartosz wrote the following on his blog:
>
> Bartosz Milewski Says:
>
> July 20, 2009 at 2:59 pm
>
> To Álvaro: Weve just had a conferenceAndrei, Walter and I. We decided
> that we have a deadline for D2, so we have to cut some features and
> postpone them to D3. The race-free type system wont make itthere just
> isnt enough time to implement and test it. There will be however a
> stopgap solution for message passing in Phobos. It will be limited but safe.
>
> Source:
> http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/on-actors-and-casting/#comments
> See comment 15.
>
> Perhaps Walter, would like to publish or confirm what is on the final
> list for D2. It would reduce confusion and rumour.
>
> cheers
> Nick B.
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