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On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 20:48:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 17:52:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> I very much think the opposite, drawing from many years of 
>> hacking into large codebases. I'm completely with Rob here. On 
>> a large codebase, even the slightest manual or semi-manual 
>> change is painstaking to plan and execute, and almost always 
>> suffers of human errors.
>>
>> I got convinced a dfix tool would be a strategic component of 
>> D's offering going forward.
>
> It essentially comes down to persistent compiler-as-a-library 
> issue :( Tools like dscanner can help with some of more simple 
> transition cases but anything more complicated is likely to 
> require full semantic analysis.

If only we had such a tool !