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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