On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:20 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On 1/6/2020 10:17 PM, Manu wrote: > > Well it was a preview for an unaccepted DIP, so it could have been > > withdrawn. I guess I have increased confidence now, but it still seems > > unnecessary to delay. > > Preview means for accepted DIPs as well when they break existing code. > > >> Don't really have a schedule at the moment. It'll likely be at least a > >> year. > > A year? That's disappointing. What is the reason to delay this? It > > doesn't break anything, and it likely fixes bugs on contact. > > It breaks all code that manipulates shared data directly, whether it was > correctly written or not.
It will still do that, either now... or later. So, why wait?