RFC: reference counted Throwable

Piotrek via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Sep 22 12:54:29 PDT 2014


On Monday, 22 September 2014 at 15:18:00 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Piotrek:
>
>> No, it's not a good idea. Tweaking memory management shouldn't 
>> require the language branching. IMHO, this would be a suicide.
>
> I didn't meant the advancement as a language branching, but as 
> a successive version that is (mostly) backwards compatible. 
> Likewise C#6.0 is not a branching of C#5.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I'm not sure how you define a branch, but I look at it from SCM 
pov. E.g.
assuming C#6 is master/trunk/development branch then C#5 is a 
maintenance branch of it (same for other C# versions). That 
means, MS has to keep fixing all versions in parallel.

Piotrek


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