Version statement

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/14/10 2:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> But now, when you or someone else comes along and compiles it for
>> OS_D, it's going to silently use the code for OS_B and OS_C
>> *regardless* of whether or not that's correct for OS_D.
>
> That particular problem has bitten me probably hundreds of times, and
> every other programmer as well. And it happens for lots of things
> besides OS versions.
>
> Though a programmer can always defeat the intent. At one point, someone
> added "support" for another OS in Phobos by copy/pasting the support
> declarations from another OS into the version block. Naturally, it was
> all wrong. The problem was I didn't know which parts were copy/pasted,
> so I had to go through every single declaration one at a time.

svn diff and svn blame for the rescue :o).

Andrei