Next in Review Queue: The New std.path

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Jul 15 01:55:18 PDT 2011


On Friday 15 July 2011 04:38:35 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Since the details of many of these functions have changed, is it really a
> good idea to make the depricated names aliases of the new functions? If
> anyone has code that relies on the screwy old behavior (such as trying to
> compensate for their problems) then that code will silently break.

If the behavior has changed, then the old functions need to be there. 
Otherwise, code will silently break, which would be worse than just outright 
removing the functions.

- Jonathan M Davis


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