removal of cruft from D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Travis Boucher" <boucher.travis at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:he7apn$2cru$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> Based on recent discussions on the NG a few features were 
>> deprecated/removed from D, such as typedef and C style struct 
>> initializers.
>>
>> IMO this cleanup and polish is important and all successful languages do 
>> such cleanup for major releases (Python and Ruby come to mind). I'm glad 
>> to see that D follows in those footsteps instead of accumulating craft 
>> like C++ does.
>>
>>
>> As part of this trend of cleaning up D before the release of D2, what 
>> other features/craft should be removed/deprecated?
>>
>> I suggest reverse_foreach and c style function pointers
>>
>> please add your candidates for removal.
>>
>>
>
> Make version() statements case insensitive, although I guess that would be 
> addition and not removal.  Either that, or add the common cases for all 
> reserved version keywords (or at least some consistency, linux and 
> FreeBSD).

Yes! Capitalization consistency in the predefined versions! If it needs to 
be worded as a "removal", then "Remove version's capitalization 
inconsistencies" ;). The current state of that is absolutely ridiculous, and 
frankly, a real PITA ("Ok, I need to version for Blah OS...now what random 
capitalization did Walter chose to use for that one again...?"). I don't 
care about that change breaking existing code: For one thing, it's D2, it's 
not supposed to be stable yet, and secondly: Just say "with this release, 
grep all your code for "version" and update your capitalizations", or, 
better yet, depricate any use of the old names as errors, and just get the 
damn issue fixed already!