DMD Compiler 'switches'

[ric maicle via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 01:46 AM, anonymous wrote:
> On Monday 12 October 2015 17:38, ric maicle wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if this small irregularity should be made consistent or
>> maybe I misunderstood something.
>
> As far as I know, the difference just happened, and there is point to it.
> The style without "=" is older and wasn't followed when new switches were
> added.
>
> Consistency between different switches has to be weighed against stability
> here. So far stability has won, I guess.

I think you made it clearer now. And changing it in minor releases will 
break build scripts. 'Deprecating' command line switches may be an 
option and possibly better addressed in a major release.

Also, someone may have already filed an issue about this.