dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday 11 July 2011 03:41:20 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> General annoyance:
> $ dmd *.d
> Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.ctype has been scheduled for deprecation in
> January 2012. Please use std.ascii instead.
> Warning: As of Phobos 2.052, std.date and std.dateparse have been scheduled
> for deprecation in August 2011. Please use std.datetime instead.
> Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.string.toupper has been scheduled for
> deprecation in January 2012. Please use std.string.toUpper instead.
> Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.string.tolower has been scheduled for
> deprecation in January 2012. Please use std.string.toLower instead.
> arsd/web.d(702): Error: non-final switch statement without a default is
> deprecated
> 
> 
> 
> One of these is not like the other - the last line actually tells
> me where the problem is with a file and line number so fixing
> it is easy.
> 
> 
> The others just blab stuff out. IMO these scheduled for deprecation
> warnings are more annoying to me than just having outright errors!

The deprecation messages are pragmas. They _can't_ give a useful line number. 
For them to be appropriately useful, they'd have to give the file and line 
number where the module was imported (in the case where a module is scheduled 
for deprecation) or the line number where the function was used (in the case 
of a function is scheduled for deprecation). Pragmas can't do that.

Now, maybe the pragma messages shouldn't have be prefaced with warning (since 
they're _not_ a compiler warning), but there's no way for them to give file and 
line numbers. They're doing the best that they can.

- Jonathan M Davis