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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
August 30, 2013 15:52
Subject:
Re: postfix dereference syntax
Message ID:
20130830155216.GA24568@cancer.codesimply.com
* Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> [2013-08-30T11:43:23]
> So I was kinda assuming that now that we have the mechanism, *all* major
> new features would have to make a round as an experimental feature, as
> a matter of policy, to avoid the kind of clusterfuck/embarrassment of
> the likes of smartmatch.

You are right, of course.  The feature is surely perfectly conceived and
executed, utterly without flaw, but how much greater for it to also set an
example of the new, cautious method for landing features. ;-)

-- 
rjbs

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