C standard libraries

Gary Willoughby dev at kalekold.net
Tue Jul 9 07:30:36 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 12:52:49 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe:
>
>> The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the 
>> old names before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe 
>> they haven't fully deprecated it though because there's other 
>> reasons I don't know about, since it has been many years now 
>> since the move.
>
> In D/Phobos/Dmd there is a ton of stuff that's supposed to be
> obsolete, that should not be used, that is deprecated, etc. I
> presume Walter thinks that the problems caused from keeping it
> and from unwanted usages of it, is smaller than the breaking
> troubles caused by removing it. I am person that likes to keeps
> things ordered and clean, so I prefer to remove old stuff after 
> a
> suitable deprecation period, instead of keeping it around almost
> forever (like floating point special comparison operators).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I agree.

Also the website needs updating to deter people from using std.c:
http://dlang.org/phobos/#stdio


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