Switch-case made less buggy, now with PATCH!

[retard]

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:18:05 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu, el 22 de noviembre a las 17:11 me escribiste:
>> Anyway, I think Chad's proposal has not been discussed here before
>> being implemented, which makes it more difficult to accept.
> 
> I think the exact opposite. It's much easier to accept (or reject)
> something that have an actual implementation. You can talk about
> something real, not vaporware. I wish all proposals made here were
> proposed with a patch.
> 
> Of course that's a lot of work and people usually don't want to make the
> effort to write a patch if chances are it will be rejected. But if the
> rules are clear ("your patch can be rejected"), I think you should
> encourage feature proposal with proof-of-concept patch.

The fact that a patch already exists does not make the design decision 
any better. If we all started writing crappy, contradicting extensions 
and Walter had to accept everything, D would quickly sink. There are only 
a handful of active members in this community that have enough experience 
and skills to propose any good features at this point of d development 
cycle.