On Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 12:35:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
What happens when one of our "clients" code breaks severely
because we make a change in phobos that assumes empty is always
called first on a newly-created range?
You probably can run-time test this in Debug builds, but…
I think we should work on making a protocol that does not
require awkward calls, rather than alienating developers who
don't follow the awkward protocol.
This is it. There is way too much awkwardness in D already. And
essentially, the closer the design is to mainstream the more
annoying it is when you diverge and are inconsistent.
Code should behave as expected without any need for memorizing.
Having to differentiate between dialects is so much harder than
differentiating between orthogonal languages.
