Audrey Tang wrote:
That is a sane argument, which is why I think punt-and-see has some merit:
as soon as there is a workaround forced to be expressed at :immediate
level, we can evaluate it and see if it's better handled declaratively.
Excellent. (Er, though you know that .loadlib isn't really any more
declarative than :immediate, right? It's a compile-time directive. That
is, it performs an imperative action at compile-time, just like the
equivalent 'loadlib' in :immediate.)
Can we agree on the punt-and-see, neither-encourage-nor-deprecate
resolution for now, then?
Pretty much. Though I'd phrase it as :immediate will not be deprecated.
And we wholeheartedly encourage people to use :immediate wherever it
solves their problem.
Be fruitful and codify,
Allison
