Why version() ?

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> But this is clearly the wrong way of cutting the pie.

Right, and I also suggest that it is the C preprocessor way of doing 
versioning. We're all deep in the C preprocessor rut, and find it 
difficult to think another way.

For example, I learned to program in Fortran. My early C code looks an 
awful lot like Fortran. People who came to C from Pascal would write 
things like:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }