On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 14:31:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
There's a mix of fundamental flaws and bugs. I'll get to the
flaws in a second. About the bugs: people have altered their
code in various ways to work with the bizarre semantics of
this(this). Now, if we fix various bugs in this(this) by
virtually redefining it, then we'll break a lot of code in a
lot of ways. To wit, we fixed a small issue and it already
created problems: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8032. That
didn't contribute to the decision but is quite illustrative.
Since poorly thought decisions keep being made for the language
it's doubtful that "no breakage" policy has real backing.
