Matthew wrote:
> 
> Walter is moved by demonstrations of practical need, not biased opinion. This is
> why he's now adding member-template functions - because I've demonstrated a need
> (in MDTL <g>) - and not implicit instantation - because no-one's yet demonstrated
> it.
> 

That's the only way to really do it.  If you add every feature everyone wants, your program will be bloated, buggy, and still not done because you're not finished adding the features everyone wants.

While there are some things I'd like to see in D... namely, default values for arguments, they are by far minor... by far, it addresses most of the large problems with C.. and I don't like OOP that much anyway (not the way people imho overuse it, at least as I see it..) so I'm going to be more than happy with it when we have a few more libraries - ie. DTL.

It's often hard on forums to tell that people appreciate all the changes made, and are just saying that they'd like even more frosting on the cake.

But sometimes features could be really useful.  It's hard to tell unless you see a good guage of their practical application, not just a lot of community support.  If this wasn't true, we'd have mng support in Firefox/Mozilla by now, eh?  But in truth, mngs are not all that useful for the web, and would only be marginally useful for xul - but in most cases animated things in the interface are annoying anyway.

-[Unknown]