On 6/18/2016 8:38 AM, tsbockman wrote:
There are specific reasons, aired in the discussions, as to why people may not be interested in working on BigDecimal (perceived as being of importance mainly to the finance industry, who is unlikely to contribute anything back in return) or removing auto decode (what's the point, when Andrei is emphatic that the feature itself cannot ever be deprecated?). Even so, those discussions were very recent; it is quite possible that someone around here intends to work on them (or already is) and just hasn't got far enough to want feedback yet.
Actually, Andrei has agreed with the issues autodecoding has, he's just (legitimately) wary of the extent of disruption it would cause by removing it. He is also in favor of fixing Phobos so it is not dependent on it.
(Note that I have fixed quite a few bits of Phobos in this manner already, see std.string and std.path)
