The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1007 [1], "'future symbol' Compiler Concept", is now underway. From now until 11:59 PM ET on June 21 (3:59 AM GMT on June 22), the community has the opportunity to provide last-minute feedback. If you missed the preliminary review [2], this is your chance to provide input.

At the end of the feedback period, I will submit the DIP to Walter and Andrei for their final decision. Thanks in advance to those of you who participate.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/4ae4b8c4ebc69d46b4801856b01474367065e7b6/DIPs/DIP1007.md
[2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/hjdstwzhcbrektlijvhm@forum.dlang.org

On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 10:36:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1007 [1], "'future symbol' Compiler Concept", is now underway. From now until 11:59 PM ET on June 21 (3:59 AM GMT on June 22), the community has the opportunity to provide last-minute feedback. If you missed the preliminary review [2], this is your chance to provide input.

This has probably been said somewhere before, but could you give a short explanation of what the formal review is, and how it's supposed to be different from the preliminary review? Thank you in advance.

Otherwise, the whole DIP seems pretty well thought-out to me. I particularly like the idea of a core-only @__future attribute, that can be replaced with a globally available @future attribute eventually.

On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 13:47:41 UTC, Olivier FAURE wrote:
>
> This has probably been said somewhere before, but could you give a short explanation of what the formal review is, and how it's supposed to be different from the preliminary review? Thank you in advance.

The basic idea is in the README. I'll be revising it a bit in the near future based on the lessons I've learned so far to clarify the process, but I want to keep this thread focused on feedback. Thanks!

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/README.md

On 06/07/2017 09:47 AM, Olivier FAURE wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 10:36:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1007 [1], "'future symbol' Compiler Concept", is now underway. From now until 11:59 PM ET on June 21 (3:59 AM GMT on June 22), the community has the opportunity to provide last-minute feedback. If you missed the preliminary review [2], this is your chance to provide input.
> 
> This has probably been said somewhere before, but could you give a short explanation of what the formal review is, and how it's supposed to be different from the preliminary review? Thank you in advance.

@Mike that would make a good wiki page. -- Andrei

On 06/07/2017 10:42 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 13:47:41 UTC, Olivier FAURE wrote:
>>
>> This has probably been said somewhere before, but could you give a short explanation of what the formal review is, and how it's supposed to be different from the preliminary review? Thank you in advance.
> 
> The basic idea is in the README. I'll be revising it a bit in the near future based on the lessons I've learned so far to clarify the process, but I want to keep this thread focused on feedback. Thanks!
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/README.md

Ah never mind :o). -- Andrei

On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 14:42:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
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> I'll be revising it a bit in the near future based on the lessons I've learned so far to clarify the process, but I want to keep this thread focused on feedback. Thanks!
>
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/README.md

Sorry, my question was poorly formulated. What I meant was it would be nice if you gave us either a short explanation of what these processes are, or a link to one (which you just did, thank you!), and more importantly, it would be nice to do this systematically with each of these announcements :)

On 6/7/2017 3:36 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1007 [1], "'future symbol' Compiler Concept", is now underway. From now until 11:59 PM ET on June 21 (3:59 AM GMT on June 22), the community has the opportunity to provide last-minute feedback. If you missed the preliminary review [2], this is your chance to provide input.
> 
> At the end of the feedback period, I will submit the DIP to Walter and Andrei for their final decision. Thanks in advance to those of you who participate.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/4ae4b8c4ebc69d46b4801856b01474367065e7b6/DIPs/DIP1007.md 
> 
> [2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/hjdstwzhcbrektlijvhm@forum.dlang.org

And an implementation too, which has been around for a while:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6494

On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 at 10:36:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1007 [1], "'future symbol' Compiler Concept", is now underway. From now until 11:59 PM ET on June 21 (3:59 AM GMT on June 22), the community has the opportunity to provide last-minute feedback. If you missed the preliminary review [2], this is your chance to provide input.
>
> At the end of the feedback period, I will submit the DIP to Walter and Andrei for their final decision. Thanks in advance to those of you who participate.

The feedback period has ended. I'll announce the final decision once it's been made.