removal of cruft from D
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Nov 21 11:51:02 PST 2009
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 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!
The choices were not random. They coincided with the common usage of the
underlying C compiler.
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