Evolving the D Language

[Johan]

On Friday, 7 July 2023 at 03:06:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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> To that end, we have a new switch: -wo

Isn't that just another "deprecation" switch?

I'm now thinking that deprecations in general are causing us 
headaches, but the all-or-nothing approach. You either turn all 
warnings/deprecations into errors (i.e. keeping your code clean, 
preventing people newly introducing deprecated/bad constructs), 
or none of them.
If there is a way to selectively enable/disable 
warnings/deprecations, then the problem goes away. Because if a 
newly introduced deprecation is causing trouble, you can 
selectively disable that one and continue development while being 
protected from introduction of old deprecations.

I added this in the past but it was slain :((
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5592

-Johan