On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:25:10 +1000, Derek Parnell <derek@psych.ward> wrote:

Oops!
> I did and rewrote the docs for this.
>
>    http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/attr.html



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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia

In article <e7sa0h$3no$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Dave says...
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>kris wrote:
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>> If Walter wishes to open up the topic for input, and chooses to be frank about the original design and what his concerns are, that would make for interesting material ... we could perhaps all learn a thing or two
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>Yes, I wish Walter would.

Does Walter still read this newsgroup? I know that I don't read it as much as I used to now that it's mostly automated posts from bugzilla. ;) (He might just hang out in bugzilla itself and ignore this newsgroup.)

Aside from the politics of personal destruction (which I try not to participate in), this discussion has been way over my head. It sounds like an important issue, but it seems like it'd fit in more over at the main D newsgroup than in the bugs newsgroup.

The specification secretly changed in the middle of the night? Important parts of the spec have been quietly deleted? Maybe the Digital Mars website has been broken into by Microsoft, and Walter has been replaced by a clone created by the Sun Corporation. Sounds like something the broader D community would be interested in finding out about.


>Kris, you have alluded to, and IIRC Sean confirmed that the docs. may have changed on this issue.
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>If that's the case, Walter could easily clear this up if he happens to be reading any of this (perhaps he's completely heads downs right now and isn't even aware of it; he's been known to do that once in a while :)

Maybe he's unaware of this discussion. Maybe he's ignoring it. There's no way to know for sure.


>Anybody try pulling the old docs. from one of those online caches?

Some unofficial PDF snapshots are available, too: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification

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