On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 18:03:54 UTC, Rob T wrote:
On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 17:52:12 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
Instead, we should be trying to continuously expand the
things we
guarantee will continue to work. Ideally we would be precise
about the
things that are likely to change, and which we don't
currently guarantee.
+1
I agree with this completely, but we cannot do it until there's
a full implementation of a reasonably designed and followed
development and release process that includes the language
specification.
--rt
+1
The language has reached a point where bugs in the spec are more
important than bugs of the implementation. In fact many difficult
bugs in the implementation are rooted in spec issues.