It seems pure ain't so pure after all

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 01:19:51 Tommi wrote:
> I'm not sure if you meant the same, but I meant the word "cost"
> of a feature as "the amount the feature complicates the
> language". Also, I'm only asking people to "buy" this feature in
> the sense of: "what would you say about this feature if the
> language was still back on the drawing board and nothing had been
> written down yet".

No offense, but a feature proposal is pretty pointless if it's a "this would 
have been nice had we had thought of it when we could have easily added it." A 
feature proposal is only relevant if it's really an attempt to change the 
language now.

If we were really back at the drawing board, there are plenty of other things 
which would change, some of which could completely change how some things work 
and possibly invalidate a feature which might seem reasonable now but wouldn't 
work with the other changes (which probably isn't the case here, but still, 
discussing what could have been doesn't really buy us anything IMHO).

- Jonathan M Davis