On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 10:40:36 UTC, Avrina wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 20:03:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 13:21:33 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>>> I was expecting a response like this. Anyone not satisfied with ...
>>> 
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>>> If the goal is to reduce attribute bloat, there are better ways to achieve this that don't case breaking change. As well as that affect more than just delegates passed as a parameter.
>>>
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>> What would that be?
>
> You can search the forums, lots of good ideas get brought up, no point in repeating them. Instead we get this broken as DIP cause Walter encountered who knows what situation that inconvenienced him.

If every idea easily got into D we would be no different from C++. I'm sure everything that got added in C++ had a convincing reason in the moment to be in there.

On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 21:06:03 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 August 2020 at 10:40:36 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 20:03:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 18 August 2020 at 13:21:33 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>>>> I was expecting a response like this. Anyone not satisfied with ...
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>> If the goal is to reduce attribute bloat, there are better ways to achieve this that don't case breaking change. As well as that affect more than just delegates passed as a parameter.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What would that be?
>>
>> You can search the forums, lots of good ideas get brought up, no point in repeating them. Instead we get this broken as DIP cause Walter encountered who knows what situation that inconvenienced him.
>
> If every idea easily got into D we would be no different from C++. I'm sure everything that got added in C++ had a convincing reason in the moment to be in there.

Ironic you say that in this thread, while that statement isn't directed at this DIP :).