[dmd-beta] Possibly important fix for 2.0.66 beta?

[H. S. Teoh via dmd-beta]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:51:44PM -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
> There's hundreds of open bugs of various levels of embarrassment.
> That's not exactly a recently introduced bug.  We need to be focusing
> on the regressions and keeping the release cycle fast enough that
> we're not trying to slip more and more fixes in once the beta cycle
> has started.  There's going to be a next release for more fixes to
> reside.
[...]

Fair enough. I suppose the fact that this particular bug has been around
for so long and only recently did somebody run into it, is proof that
perhaps it's a very rarely encountered case, so probably doesn't warrant
urgent treatment.


T

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