DMD Compiler 'switches'

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:33 AM, ric maicle via Digitalmars-d-learn <
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ya I did a while ago: "new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul."
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.1468.1369129517.4724.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
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