Stable D version?

[Mehrdad]

On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 07:37:29 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 07:19:47 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> Sorry, most of my responses are really short because I'm 
>> working on other things at the moment.
>>
>> I'm just trying to say a few sentences to make a point and go 
>> back to what I'm doing, but it's not going as well as I would 
>> have hoped.
>
> OK.
>
> On Tuesday, 23 April 2013 at 07:19:47 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> Honestly, out of all the things I said, you also picked and 
>> chose single one to give nonsensical replies to.
>>
>> I said C and C++ and VB.NET and Matlab etc., and you just 
>> replied with "C struct doesn't even have ==".
>
> I'm just replying to this because I wanted to make it clear 
> what I did:
>
> I booted up a Linux VM and wrote a quick program to try to 
> understand where you were coming from, taking a painstaking 
> effort to try to understand you and the context of what you're 
> trying to say. I didn't respond to all of the other languages 
> because I was immediately confused by the result of the first 
> and, additionally, trying all of the above languages would be 
> fairly time consuming. My apologies for not trying all of them.
>
> My intention was for good when I did it, so I hope that's 
> enough to earn forgiveness for "picking and choosing a single 
> one to give nonsensical replies to". :-\


Haha okay no worries, sorry my replies weren't terribly friendly.
Btw there's www.ideone.com, you can also try some things there.

>
>>
>> Not only did you completely miss my first point there (why 
>> aren't other languages doing the same thing?), you also missed 
>> my second point:
>> If == doesn't make sense, it shouldn't be defined at all.
>
> Also, your second point wasn't missed. It simply didn't exist 
> before I had started trying the C code.


Sorry I didn't realize that. :( Hope it makes sense now.

> TBH, I think this would be a better solution. But I'd bet it'd 
> break way too much code now.


I think if D wants to go anywhere, code will have to be broken, 
lots of it.

No one's going to like it, but when it has broken features to 
begin with then it's not going to go very far in terms of 
usability.