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bearophile
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Mon Mar 28 14:36:37 PDT 2011
KennyTM~:
> Python's future statement provides features that will certainly be
> enabled. It's a feature to provide smoother code compatibility with
> earlier versions. Every decision is pretty much settled when it is
> available in __future__, and the only step left is to enable it by default.
>
> This is not the case for incubator/foo/experimental. There is no
> guarantee that the module must be voted in, nor the interface will be
> the same when transitioning to std.
You are right, there are important differences.
Beside a Phobos module like std.experimental, I'd like a way to activate experimental features in D too. There is a similar feature in Haskell too, and it's used a lot.
Bye,
bearophile
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