On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 05:04:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Whatever the status of DIP 1000, I would point out that that one of Walter's DIPs is in Community Review right now after sitting in the PR queue in Draft Review for a while. Once this review stage is done, it will go back into the queue to await Final Review like any other DIP. The only difference between this and other DIPs is that there will be no Formal Assessment for it. And this is the second DIP from Walter that has gone through the process since I've come on board, with DIP 1008 being put on pause at his request.
I understand that Walter's DIPs have been put through the process just like the others, but with regard to the specific issue in this thread (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19097), the accompanying PR (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8504), and similarly undocumented PR (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8408), they are amending DIP 1000 and DIP 25 "under the table". There is no accompanying PR to the specification, no formal rational, no RFC from the community, etc...
Yet I and others have to go through the DIP process for much less significant changes to the language, and rightly so:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7310 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7079 All I want to see from Walter is: 1) a sufficiently documented proposal for his idea 2) an RFC from the community 3) a PR to the spec documenting the final design I don't think that's too much to ask. Mike
