Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> wrote in message > news:h29gil$6u...@digitalmars.com... > > "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billings...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:mailman.316.1246228005.13405.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > >> With four or five people having voiced concerns over the future of D > >> in the past week or so, what's the busiest discussion? > >> > >> int.nan, of course. > >> > >> Come on. Get with the program. Enough already with the bikeshed > >> bullshit. There are far more important issues at hand. > > > > Oh, please, if int.nan is a bikeshed discussion, then what would we call > > complaining *about* that discussion? Some of us find it an interesting > > discussion. So we talk about it. Big f&**^ deal. > > And if we really need more "future of D" discussion, here's one: How's D > going to look to newcomers if the forums have topic-of-discussion-police > that go around complaining "We shouldn't be talking about this!" "This isn't > a worthy debate!" "But, this'll never actually happen, so why mention it?!" > I've been down this road before (man, how I've been down it...). Next thing > that happens is more people come in on each side of this endless rabbit hole > that is meta-discussion, real debate slows down (both hypothetical and > practical), tempers flare, people leave, and the whole group degenerates > into a paralyzed staticy dysfunctional madness. It's a sad, sad thing. Yea, > sure, that sounds like a classic "slippery slope" fallacy, but damn if I > haven't seen it happen time and time again. Let's not go there.
u got me wrong d00d. problem's not topic police. problem's topic bullshit. making int min int nan iz bullshit. d is systems language. int nan requires tests inserted all over. otherwise it's useless. some ops would return int nan. question is: wut does a newcummer think seein' shitty ideaz all over dis group.
