Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[Walter Bright]

On 12/10/2012 3:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, December 10, 2012 13:50:47 Walter Bright wrote:
>> Why? (It's being heavily used by some people.)
>
> It hasn't even been properly worked out yet, and new features like that
> shouldn't be being introduced in the main branch. It's not at all ready for
> general consumption, and if it's in there, people are going to start using it
> and then complaining when their code breaks when we change it later. It's the
> sort of thing that should be on a separate branch and not in master. Even
> worse, if the new stable branch that we've been talking about includes this,
> then you'll have programmers programming with it for months before they get
> the updates with the design that we're actually going to end up with, meaning
> that that much more code will be written for that much longer with an
> incomplete feature, waiting to be broken when the feature is actually updated
> in the version of the compiler that they're using.

We've debated this feature at length in various threads. It's under heavy use by 
some people. It does not break any existing code. I don't see any unresolved 
issue that should delay its incorporation.