stability

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 24 10:21:34 PST 2008


"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote in message 
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> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>
>> "Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:fps551$1q6a$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> True about the spec. However, this is a _breaking_ change (that is, code
>>> that compiled frine with older versions has a slight chance of acting
>>> differently or breaking when this change is introduced).
>>
>> Actually it isn't, it's an _un_breaking change ;)  Code that used to not
>> work now does.  So it's not like there's any existing code out there to
>> break.
>
> Actually, extern (System) was introduced because users had come to rely on 
> a
> bug that was later fixed ( versioned blocks with "extern(Windows):" in
> them). So more like fix and break, then change to unbreak again.

I was referring to the struct tupleof issue.  Sorry. 





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