Igor Stepanov's runtime reflection patch

[Brad Roberts]

On 1/12/2012 7:48 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 13 January 2012 at 01:52:04 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
>>> DMD patch against commit c50eb5f (from December 31): http://j.mp/xdI0hb
>>> Druntime Github fork: https://github.com/IgorStepanov/druntime
>>
>> Why the heck isn't the dmd patch a fork as well?
> 
> Walter said[1] that compiler modifications that change the language are better-off distributed as patches.
> 
>  [1]: http://j.mp/w6PnwF

He meant not a language fork.  And by patch, I'm sure he included pull requests.  Terminology differences.