Why version() ?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gmtf5g$1ban$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> --version=OhGodMakeItStop=false
>

lol :)

I love all of the contrived code we come up with on this newsgroup. Other 
gems just from this "Why version()?" thread alone:

version=canBeUsedToPickupChicks
version(Poopy) {} else

> You might be able to rework the syntax so that you can define the
> default value of a version symbol in a module, then override it from the
> command line.
>
> module simd_versions;
> version UseMMX=false, UseSSE=false, UseSSE2=false, ...;
>

I think you've just demonstrated here that this feature *can* be made to 
work.