On 6/15/16 9:34 PM, tsbockman wrote:
`checkedint` (and @burner's `SafeInt` before it) have been under
development in the open for over a year now. There have been several
discussions in the forums, with feedback being actively solicited.
Significant design changes were made to address various people's needs.
`SafeInt` was an open pull request for many months with 100+ comments
accumulating in that time.
Why didn't you make your design requirements known at any earlier point
in this process? If you are ultimate gate keeper for Phobos (as you seem
to be), you ought to make your requirements known *before* the
implementation is finished.
Apologies about that. I've done a bit of spelunking to see what
happened. Indeed the first reference to SafeInt is on a forum post on
6/7/2015, followed immediately by
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/3389 which entailed a long discussion.
You first posted about checkedint here on 6/30/2015, in a large thread.
At that time, I had the std.allocator review going on (started on
6/11/2015), a newborn baby, and a move across the continent to worry
about (which happened at the end of June). It is entirely possible I
just missed that discussion, or more likely saw it and had no meaningful
input at the time. There has been a gap in forum posts with "checkedint"
in the title between 7/3/2015 and 6/7/2016, so it's not like there was a
continuing presence I was working hard to ignore. I honestly think
there's nothing to be offended over.
This underlies a larger issue. There must be a protocol that guarantees
a proposal is brought to consideration to the D leadership. Dicebot is
leading such an initiative (which can be seen as a revamping of DIPs)
and we hope to get it finalized soon.
Andrei
