The forked elephant in the room

[Walter Bright]

On 1/15/2024 10:33 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Preferred solutions [...]

What mechanism would you propose?

I can't help but think a preferred solution already has a lot of buy-in for it, 
and so needs less justification?

For a less preferred solution, it needs to make a compelling case for it.

Before investing a lot of time making a proposal and/or coding up an 
implementation, I strongly recommend hashing the idea out in the n.g. first, and 
seeing if there's buy-in to the concept.

I've floated many ideas on the n.g. in this manner. Some went ahead, some went 
into the dumpster and I'm glad I didn't waste time on the latter. For two recent 
examples, see the threads entitled:

"Tuples, CTFE and Sliding Template Arguments"

"Warn about using the GC"

BTW, has anyone else tried to get changes into another language? I have. It's a 
years long process, and is extremely difficult to get it through. You have a 
better chance also if you're willing to fly to the conference meetings. None of 
my proposals got anywhere. Ironically, they way they made it in was to do them in D!

P.S. We also have some contributors who have a long track record of superb 
contributions. They also have a consistent commitment to promptly fixing 
anything that goes wrong with it down the road. Yes, they get a lot less 
scrutiny. They've earned it.