Walter Bright wrote:
Luís Marques wrote:
Two years ago, I tried to use a particular construct and DMD
incorrectly detected that a statement was not reachable [1]. OK, D1
had been frozen earlier that year, so I thought it would be only a
matter of time until the higher priority stuff had been taken care of
and someone took care of this issue. That's my experience with stable
languages, even if they aren't particularly mainstream (say, Lua).
That would be true if the bug list for D1 was shrinking. But it is not,
it is growing. A bug's age does not indicate its importance to be fixed.
(The growing number of bugs reflects the increasing usage of D, not that
it is going unstable. The number of regressions is very small.)
The number of releases for which a bug went unreported is indicative of
how seldom it is encountered.
However, if a patch exists, there is only one excuse for not including
it: lack of testing. And there is one huge reason that nobody submits
additional test cases to your DMD test suite -- you've never released
it, or even specified the required format.
