earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Feb 19 06:47:28 PST 2009


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el 17 de febrero a las 13:56 me escribiste:
>>> Btw, I've got no problems with you breaking the API of 2.0 either.
>>> Though you might consider moving the current implementation to
>>> std.deprecated.regex and leaving it there for a year with a
>>> pragma(msg, "This module is deprecated").
>>> That way making a quick fix to broken code is just a matter of
>>> inserting ".deprecated" into your import statements.
>>
>> I was thinking of moving older stuff to etc, is that ok?
> 
> What's the rationale for "etc"? Why not "deprecated", o something shorter
> like "old", or "d1" (this last one could be good for future deprecated
> libraries, like when D3 is available there probably be a "d2" too).
> 

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Andrei



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