It can easily be added backward-compatibly, so could appear in, e.g., a 1.1 release. Or... someone who really wants it scratches their itch and gets it implemen

It can easily be added backward-compatibly, so could appear in, e.g., a 1.1 release. Or... someone who really wants it scratches their itch and gets it implemented. :) (The speed of a language isn't determined by the speed of it's "first release".)