What's left to do for a stable D2?

[grauzone]

Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> grauzone Wrote:
> 
>> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>>>>> Jesse Phillips Wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Jason House wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrei's finishing his last TDPL chapter, Sean is updating std.thread(?), and Walter's been fixing forward reference and CTFE bugs. What's left? 
>>>>>> This page[1] has been getting regular updates, so it should do a good
>>>>>> job answering the question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#FutureDirections
>>>>> From this list: default struct constructors?
>>>> Walter doesn't want. This will go down as one of the larger language 
>>>> incapabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>> Sigh...
>> Why can't you just use opCall?
> 
> It's ugly, doesn't work sometimes and is inconsistent with other constructors.

Why doesn't it work, bugs?
Use opCall instead of constructor in the other cases too?
Are there cases where ctors can do something opCall can't? I thought 
constructors were only added for symmetry with dtors.