dmd 2.029 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Russell Lewis wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> tama wrote:
>>> I tested following code.
>>>
>>> writefln(3 * 4);
>>>
>>> This code doesn't work in the first place:-<
>>
>> Yes, that's one of the breaking changes in the new phobos2. writefln
>> expects its first argument to be a format string.
>>
>> If it isn't, use writeln instead.
> 
> I just hit the same breakage. :(
> 
> Since the compiler can detect this situation statically, shouldn't 
> Phobos just statically redirect the call to writeln() ?

It did for a while. For cleanliness purposes, I thought it was about 
time to eliminate that. Also, extraneous arguments passed to writef will 
be ignored, not printed with default formatting.

Andrei