D1 -> D2

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Nov 19 18:49:48 PST 2010


torhu wrote:
> But current D 1 compilers are useless for most people anyway, until 
> Tango catches up.  And in any case, if you upgrade, you often get some 
> nice new bugs in addition to the fixes, so upgrading is often not worth 
> the hassle.  But making it easier to go from D 1 to D 2 would still be a 
> big gain, so why not do that?  No one cares about "stability" of D 1 
> compilers.  If you want "stability", it's very simple.  You just don't 
> upgrade.
> 
> Tango is dying, and D 1 with it.  We don't want "stability", we want a 
> viable way to move to D 2.

I understand. You can use a text preprocessor right now to do it, m4. It's 
quick, easy, and works.


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