std.getopt suggestion

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Oct 4 02:55:31 PDT 2011


On 2011-10-04 11:02, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/4/2011 1:06 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright"<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
>> news:j6e1k9$2p9u$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> 2. Once a feature is there, it stays forever. It's very hard to judge
>>> how
>>> many people rely on a feature that turns out in hindsight to be baggage.
>>
>> If people are relying on it, is it really baggage?
>
> Yes.
>
> The C++0x Committee attempted to dump support for trigraphs. I read the
> adamant ripostes to that proposal from a very small handful of users.
> Those users' arguments were flat out wrong (in my not-so-humble opinion)
> and there is an obvious, easy workaround for their old code. But they
> still carried the day, and trigraphs stayed in, still wreaking havoc.

They at least removed export templates.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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