"Stanislav Malyshev" wrote in message news:54c533a4.3090...@gmail.com...
Hi!
2) I don't see a flood of people coming to the mailing list complaining
about this feature, so I'm not compelled to want it in the language.
That's true for most features, and that's normal - in fact, I can't
remember a feature or a fix where we had a flood of people coming to the
list.
And a pretty strange reason to refuse a new thing - nobody develops new
things by sitting and waiting for people to complain enough about not
having this exact thing. Apple didn't make iPhone because a lot of
people came to them and asked them to make an iPhone. Of course, I'm not
comparing my little RFC to a technological breakthrough, but the whole
premise that new things can be made only when enough people complained
about not having it sounds wrong to me.
Well said.
One way of gauging if people have problems which would be solved by an RFC
such as this would be to look in the bug database. A quick search using
"constructor" yielded over 300 results. I didn't examine all of them, but
several would have been solved with this RFC.
Introducing something only when enough people have complained about not
having it is not always the right way to go. When the motor car was invented
it was not because there was a demand for motor cars. Everybody was using
horses at the time, and if you asked them what they wanted they would have
answered "faster horses".
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Tony Marston
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