earthquake changes of std.regexp to come

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:35:54 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> Maybe "design" is too strong a word.  Most Phobos modules seem to have
>>>> been put together rather hastily in order to fill a pressing need.
>>>> Often *something* is better than nothing at all, even if the something
>>>> is not so great.
>>>  std.regexp evolved out of the ECMAscript regex functions - they have 
>>> the same names and functionality. Layered on top of that was 
>>> ruby-like names and functionality. It's a good (bad?) example of an 
>>> api evolving without sacrificing backwards compatibility.
>>
>> s/good \(bad\?\)/REALLY BAD/
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Backward compatibility is almost always a bad thing.
> Look what's happened to C++ and OpenGL.

In this case it's even worse, as I don't think anyone expects to paste 
their Ruby code and compile it with dmd.

Andrei