Neal Gafter

Proposal: "Closed" type hierarchies

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@agocke commented on [Mon Feb 15 2016](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/8729) # Background This proposal is substantially similar to https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/188, but it focuses more on integrating with existing C# object structures and less on...

Champion "Type Classes (aka Concepts, Structural Generic Constraints)"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See -...

Declaration of ref/out parameters in lambdas without typename

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@ViIvanov commented on [Sat Feb 07 2015](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/303) Hello! I have a little suggestion for C# language. Let us have delegate like this: ``` cs delegate T Parse(string text); ``` and...

Champion "Allow null coalescing operator for pointers"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM (and reviewed with compat council) - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) -...

Champion "User-defined Positional Patterns"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed This championed...

Champion "Async Main" (C# 7.1)

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- [x] Proposal added: [proposals/async-main.md](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/async-main.md) - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See also https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/1695 https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/7476

Champion "Async Streams" (including async disposable) (16.3, Core 3)

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- [x] Proposal added: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/csharp-8.0/async-streams.md - [x] Discussed in LDM - [x] Decision in LDM - [x] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [x] Spec'ed See dev spec: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/async-streams.md See also...

Champion "Const Var"

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- [ ] Proposal added - [ ] Discussed in LDM - [ ] Decision in LDM - [ ] Finalized (done, rejected, inactive) - [ ] Spec'ed See also...

Using readonly property as target of ByRef

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@jrmoreno1 commented on [Fri Aug 26 2016](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/13403) Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Version 14.0.25123.00 Update 2 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.6.01590 Visual Basic 2015 00322-90150-04967-AA372 Microsoft Visual Basic 2015 **Steps...

bmg: Implement a sigmoid transform for use with distributions like Beta.

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Summary: Adds a new transform, Sigma, which maps a probability value in the range (0..1) to the range (-INF..INF). This is one of the blockers preventing distributions like Beta from...