On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 23:47:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/10/2012 3:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, December 10, 2012 13:50:47 Walter Bright wrote:
Why? (It's being heavily used by some people.)
It hasn't even been properly worked out yet, and new features
like that
shouldn't be being introduced in the main branch. It's not at
all ready for
general consumption, and if it's in there, people are going to
start using it
and then complaining when their code breaks when we change it
later. It's the
sort of thing that should be on a separate branch and not in
master. Even
worse, if the new stable branch that we've been talking about
includes this,
then you'll have programmers programming with it for months
before they get
the updates with the design that we're actually going to end
up with, meaning
that that much more code will be written for that much longer
with an
incomplete feature, waiting to be broken when the feature is
actually updated
in the version of the compiler that they're using.
We've debated this feature at length in various threads. It's
under heavy use by some people. It does not break any existing
code. I don't see any unresolved issue that should delay its
incorporation.
It's still experimental and should be marked as such: it's just
not ready for production. I can envision that in a few months,
some people using it heavily will report that it's ugly and
interacting badly with other features.
You just can't decide that such a feature is ready for production
without having a feedback after several months of usage by
several users.
