Evolving the D Language

Olivier Pisano olivier.pisano at laposte.net
Sat Jul 8 09:12:34 UTC 2023


On Friday, 7 July 2023 at 10:45:33 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Friday, 7 July 2023 at 09:35:14 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>>
>> I respectfully disagree, and prefer to keep going on with the 
>> current deprecation and cleanup policy: Scott Meyers' DConf 
>> 2014 keynote all the way down.
>
> +1
>
> I've always agreed with the deprecation in the end, even 
> complex numbers.
> alias this was a relatively bad idea, even if an iconic feature.
> I don't remember people from outside the community being 
> impressed by alias this.
> We have the right to backtrack on bad ideas instead of keeping 
> them forever.
> The __traits changed feature was aout fixing an incorrect 
> behaviour. It took 10 min to fix.
> The current deprecation system is very good.

I agree with these two messages.


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