A gentle critque..

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> There have been some code-breaking changes in D, however, every one of 
> them needs only trivial source code changes to update them. Secondly, 
> all versions of the D compiler are available for download, so one can 
> still get the version of dmd that the code was designed for. And lastly, 
> with any programming language, it makes unavoidable sense to archive the 
> compiler and relevant build tools along with the source code to any 
> critical project.
> 
> After all, in the process of standardization, even C broke existing 
> code. (Remember the reiser preprocessor? sign preserving integral 
> promotions?)

Not to mention the fact that D is still in beta--changes are to be 
expected at this point.


Sean