[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1564

[Walter Bright]

Ok.

Brad Roberts wrote:
> I'll put 3516 on my list to look at this weekend.  1894 is on my list of 
> 'make it die' as well.  Walter, wanna take that one and make it go away 
> for us? :)
>
> Thanks for the list,
> Brad
>
> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Don Clugston wrote:
>
>   
>> On 28 May 2010 20:34, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Don, what's your top 5 list of unfixed bugs?
>>>       
>> After this one:
>> (A) Deterministic destruction does not work.
>> 3516  Destructor not called on temporaries
>> 3323 Segfault or ICE(e2ir.c) using struct with destructor almost anywhere
>> 1894 scope(exit) is ignored except in compound statements
>>
>> (B)  Module protection does not work
>> 314 [module] Static, renamed, and selective imports are always public
>>
>> (C) AAs don't work with structs
>> 2451 Adding structs that use opAssign or postblit to an AA is broken
>>
>> Which is actually not too different to the list of most voted bugs.
>> These are the ones where I think someone could legitimately decide not
>> to use D based on the existence of that single bug. I used to have a
>> long list of such bugs (most involved wrong code generation), but
>> almost all of them have been fixed.
>>
>>     
>>> From my personal wish list: I'd really love to see increased focus on
>>> patch integration.  There's a lot of them out there, many with authors who
>>> are eager to improve their patches if needed and just need the nudges.
>>> More attention to patches ==> more happy patch submitters ==> more
>>> submissions ==> faster bug fixing.
>>>       
>> I agree, and the original success of Linux has often been attributed to that.
>> We might not be too far from the point where Walter spends most of his
>> time integrating patches...
>> And it'll be well worth thinking about what we can do to make that as
>> easy as possible.
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