Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

ixid nuaccount at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 16:11:22 PST 2012


On Saturday, 22 December 2012 at 23:37:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 22 December 2012 19:32, Leandro Lucarella <
> leandro.lucarella at sociomantic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 14 December 2012 at 00:42:58 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/13/2012 4:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1. How much work would it be for the guys at Remedy Games to 
>>>> convert
>>>> their
>>>> codebase from [] to @()?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know. All I know is it's a lot of code.
>>>
>>
>> You should ask. It's really crazy to ask the WHOLE community 
>> to take the
>> bullet for some company using an experimental unreleased 
>> version of the
>> compiler without even knowing if there is a good reason why 
>> they can't just
>> fix their code.
>>
>> And in any case, this is theirs problem, they should be using 
>> a special
>> version of the compiler (the one that accepts broken code), 
>> not all the
>> rest!
>>
>> This is just completely crazy...
>>
>
>
> This.

Surely someone like Walter or yourself (I am not suggesting that 
it's your responsibility) could have written a reliable find and 
replace for the other attribute syntax, fixed Remedy's codebase 
and allowed everyone to move on?


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