DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 9 12:07:28 PDT 2008


"Jarrett Billingsley" wrote
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:g52v0a$13hh$5 at digitalmars.com...
>> Koroskin Denis wrote:
>>> Maybe, but so-called stable version should provide bug-compatibility as 
>>> well :)
>>> But then, there are people who want to have certain breaking bugs fixed. 
>>> Can't please everyone.
>>
>> And we also have #288 where Sean wants a breaking language change put 
>> into 1.0. I cannot justify that, but fixing bugs where invalid code was 
>> accepted is justifiable.
>
> I agree with your decision not to fix 288 in D1, but it *is* frustrating 
> to have bugs that were reported when D2 was not even a twinkle in your eye 
> not being fixed until D2.

I have to say I wish D1 did have opEquals returning bool, but I'm on 
Walter's side on not changing it now.  This is not a bug, but a design 
change.  The original version (returning int) worked as designed, there was 
nothing 'broken' about it.

-Steve 




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