dmd 2.029 release

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Apr 20 10:20:34 PDT 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Ok, I've undeprecated rand_seed, sigh. I was hoping I'd eliminate 
>> rand() entirely from this release, but Walter pointed out it would 
>> break too much code. So I left rand() and rand_seed() as deprecated. 
>> Now I only left rand() deprecated so at least the static constructor 
>> works.
> 
> I think the right fix for that is for the compiler to not complain about 
> deprecated symbol usage if the usage is in the same module the 
> deprecated symbol is defined in.

Reading this, I thought "No chance Walter will ever do this" until I saw 
the poster's name :o).

Andrei


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