removal of cruft from D

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:51:02 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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.

Makes sense, I always have trouble re-capitalizing version statements when  
porting C code...

-Steve