Re: switch design
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Sep 11, 2009
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my main point is: Could upcoming language features please be discussed in this forum? I think they'll have more participants then (well, at least me).
This has been discussed before. When we first moved to the mailing list it was because legitimate user questions/comments that had nothing to do with the development of Euphoria (the use of, yes) were getting totally swamped in the development chatter. We then created the mailing list. During key planning, the developer list goes crazy. At one point in time there were quite a few users on the development list. Since then they have almost all left because of the traffic and due to the nature of the messages. Much of it is the technical internals of Euphoria which most users don't care about.
Why take that discussion here and drive them off the forum too?
Now, the suggestion of topics may be a good one but who's going to develop that? When there are things that we discuss of major language design changes/additions, we do bring it up on the forum. Many times not until we at least have an idea how to do it, some ideas about how it could be done, etc... For instance, we wouldn't say on the forum "We need a new way to make decisions" and then come up with the switch statement from that. We would at least hash out, see what's possible, different design techniques and then present options and let the discussion go from there.
What I'm almost sure of, though, with the topic discussion is that things will be flying, the majority of the messages will be of no interest to the users and we will have just as much user participation on the developer forum as we do on the developer mailing list. Those who really want to take part in the daily nitty gritty of Euphoria development can/should join the developers mailing list. Items that the developers think the user will be interested in comes to the forum, just as said before.
That seems to be the best balance and make the most sense.
BTW... I am curious. You want to be part of deciding what Euphoria is and becomes? The language stinks and shouldn't even exist according to you. It's a total failure on any count and for the sake of man kind should be destroyed, including any mention of it... At least, that's the impression I get of how you feel towards it.
Jeremy
