On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Gábor Lehel <glaebho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of which: I completely agree with Patrick that there's no point
> to
> > blocking Rust 1.0 on backwards compatible features. The reason I'm
> > nonetheless wary of a drive to finalize the language too soon is that
> there
> > are still some really huge things outstanding, such as DST/SST, that we
> > still need to figure out, let alone implement, and ideally after
> > implementation there should also be a cooling-off period to see if
> > everything's working well, and that there aren't further issues that end
> up
> > getting raised as a consequence (or if there are, how to address them),
> and
> > so forth.
>
> Adding a backwards compatible feature can completely change the idioms
> of the language. Of course, if we're not worried about stabilizing the
> standard library then it doesn't matter.
>

Right. It was my understanding that we aren't.
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