On 28 August 2012 00:08, Maxim Fomin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 20:29:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote: > >> >> That guy just have to rework 5 projects. This is quite a lot of work. >> >> Obviously, that change have to be done. But you can't just impose such a >> change on users. Their agenda isn't synchronized with D's. >> >> D NEED a better versioning scheme, as explained MANY times here already. >> > > I may be considered rude, but as I have understood from the first post Manu > 1) decided to use a not fully designed language feature >
Where is that stated? It appeared to be a perfectly good, working, and awesome(!) language feature. 2) used this feature in public API when working with DLLs (which is by > itself a problematic area) > Are you suggesting using DLL's is asking for trouble? Dynamic linkage is a fundamental part of software. 3) integrated this with other language in a a way that require substantial > rewrite and possibly redesign > D will interact with other languages in the real world, if anything, my doing so and talking about my approach and experience is a service. 4) updated compiler > No shit, D has loads of bugs which are rapidly fixed all the time. which I consider a process of looking for problems and no excuse for making > code-break change. Anyway, older version of compiler is available. > Whatever.
