On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 22:50:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 20:31:41 UTC, welkam wrote:
You should put yourself in the boots of Atila. If you accept a
change that later turns out to be bad idea you cant just take
it out.
This is just silly. You don't have to accept a specific
solution...
...but...
YOU DO HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE A TYPE SYSTEM BUG!
If an indirection through an alias causes type unification to
fail then that is a serious type system failure. No excuses
please...
"workarounds" are indeed just excuses, telling people
"workarounds" they already know about is borderline offensive.
I wouldn't call it mocking, but I certainly see why it can be
perceived as such.
I suppose the answer would be that D doesn't pretend to support
all C++ template features and the bug is not a bug because we
live with this somehow for years. I didn't believe it when I got
a similar answer about IEEE floating-point numbers: D doesn't
pertinent to be IEEE 754 compatible language and the extended
precision bug is declared to be a language feature. I suppose we
shouldn't expect D to pretend to be a robust language for large
business projects.
