What's left to do for a stable D2?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:38:50 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Don 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
>>  What's the reason? Does he dislike the concept, or feel it's a  
>> implementation disaster, or something else?
>
> There are concerns about implementation difficulty and also about  
> muddying other parts of the language, e.g. T.init may fail.
>
> Andrei

I strongly believe D should get rid of T.init; I hope I'll find some time  
to write a proposal and a rationale for it.