Beta 2.079.0
psychoticRabbit
meagain at meagain.com
Fri Feb 23 02:33:55 UTC 2018
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 02:31:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
>
> We deprecate stuff when we need to, but every time we deprecate
> something, it breaks code (even if it's not immediate
> breakage), so the benefits that come from a deprecation need to
> be worth the breakage that it causes. Every D program on the
> planet which isn't completely trivial uses imports, and many of
> them use selective imports. So, you're talking about breaking a
> large percentage of the existing programs for a syntax change.
> That's not likely to go over well. Large breakage like that can
> be acceptable when it clearly fixes bugs but not just for
> aesthetics.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
yeah I do agree. I'd prefer no change. I don't really see the
need.
On the otherhand, if change is coming, lets make it a sensible
change ;-)
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