dmd 2.063 beta 5

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu May 23 19:35:09 PDT 2013


Walter Bright:

> 3. Naive users may see their compile fail, see a switch to 
> 'enable' it, and throw the switch. Now it compiles, but fails 
> silently at runtime. This is because the new behavior is quite 
> different from the old, and the code that relies on the old 
> behavior will most likely need to be redone, not just add a 
> switch.

Even if such "naive" D programmers exist, maybe it's better to 
ignore this third point, because they will not be able to program 
in D for other reasons.

Bye,
bearophile


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