On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 20:32 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > On Friday, 14 December 2012 at 00:42:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > On 12/13/2012 4:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote: > >> 1. How much work would it be for the guys at Remedy Games to > >> convert their > >> codebase from [] to @()? > > > > I don't know. All I know is it's a lot of code. > > You should ask. It's really crazy to ask the WHOLE community to > take the bullet for some company using an experimental unreleased > version of the compiler without even knowing if there is a good > reason why they can't just fix their code. > > And in any case, this is theirs problem, they should be using a > special version of the compiler (the one that accepts broken > code), not all the rest! > > This is just completely crazy...
Is it really being suggested that the undefined needs of a single organization that neither owns the language and code, nor pays the salaries of the committers, determine the evolution of a FOSS languages? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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