D Language Foundation July 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

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On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took
>
> ### Nick
> Nick had nothing new for us but did have some comments on the 
> `-wo` switch. He thought it was great. However, since there's 
> no indication by default if code is using an obsolete feature, 
> he felt it would be great if people could just get in the habit 
> of using the new switch. That could be a sort of cultural thing.
>
> Walter agreed it should be cultural. He had noticed this in 
> GCC. There are some really bad features of C, but GCC doesn't 
> warn about them by default. Users have to turn on the warnings. 
> That seems okay to him and it seems to work for GCC.

Maybe if the compiler detects that depreciated features are being 
used it could add a line to the output...

"To check for usage of depreciated features uses the "-wo" swicth"

A simple 1 line "friendly reminder" instead of pages of warnings, 
surely people could live with that?