Naming things in Phobos - std.algorithm and writefln

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-08-05 20:08:43 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

>> But then I thought D2 was about making things better without worrying 
>> too much about backward compatibility. I find it dubious that we are 
>> ready to do a breaking language change about how properties work, but 
>> when it comes to replacing some standard library functions we can't 
>> because of backward compatibility. What is the criterion for an 
>> acceptable breaking changes?
> 
> That's what I keep on telling Walter! That, and the fact that American 
> cars suck!

You mean it's Walter who don't want to break this kind of compatibilty?

In any case, if Walter can fix alias this so that we can really do 
implicit casts, it will become possible to return a lazy range that 
implicitly convert to an array when needed.

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Michel Fortin
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