A possible future purpose for D1 [rant]

[Walter Bright]

Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> Maybe I am painting the situation more dire than it is, but I sure got 
> annoyed by it, and I hope that it will be rectified soon.
> More than new language features D needs stable and efficient libraries, 
> something that can come only if the compiler is stable enough, and at 
> least for D1.0 that should be the case

Regressions are caused by fixing bugs in the compiler while having an 
inadequate test suite. The good news in this, is that every fixed 
problem in bugzilla also winds up in the test suite, so it stays fixed.