A nice way to step into 2012

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/28/11 8:57 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I can understand how Jonathan has no problem writing verbose code, but
> I'd rather not have to write enums all over the place just to use a
> true/false flag that is obvious at the call site compared to calls
> like this:
>
> showWidget(true, false);
>
> But I bet one day Walter&  Co. will have another phone conversation
> and then magically we'll have named arguments the next day, without
> asking the community about how it feels about the inclusion (e.g. just
> like D1 deprecation, this lambda syntax, and other behind-the-scenes
> decisions between Walter and Andrei). All it will take is probably an
> angry Redditor or maybe some coworker at Facebook that asked for the
> feature.

Well as Peter said, this is a tad unfair. The decision on lambdas is a 
logical consequence of many months of discussing the issue back and 
forth across the community.

The decision to discontinue D1 could have been carried more elegantly, 
and I apologize for that. Nevertheless it would have been just as 
inevitable, and clearly it is doing and will continue to do a world of 
good to D. If anything I am sorry we didn't take the step earlier. 
Announcing a two-year expiration of D1 at the end of 2010 would have 
been even better.

> I'm just against decisions made between the two heads of state that
> happen over night. I'd like a little more transparency from our "D
> government", if you know what I mean. ;-)

Roger that. Also, I'm not sure if you were around - things did improve 
quite a bit compared to a while ago.


Andrei