What's the current state of D?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Daniel Keep
<daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think this is sufficient.  What we really need is to treat each
> part of the version as a complex number.
>
> In this way, non-stable releases can have imaginary components to
> distinguish them from release versions.
>
> So the current series of D 2.x compilers would become D 2i.x.  Release
> candidates would be D 2i.xi.  And of course, a stable release which has
> unreleased modifications could be D 1.x+yi

Why restrict yourself to a two-dimensional complex plane when we have
quaternions and octonions?