phobos breakage... why?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:52:51 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 10:24 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> > Why was that taken out? If you ask me, the root cause of D's
> > perceived stability problem has little to do with bugs. It
> > is 95% phobos devs removing functionality at random. Why do we
> > keep doing this?
> 
> For a relevant discussion:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6277

On a related note, we _really_ need to deprecate all of the stuff in the 
language that we've been saying for ages that we're getting rid of (e.g. scope 
variables, delete, the extra comparison operators, etc.). They're still listed 
in the docs, and people are still using them. The longer that they stay 
undeprecated, the more code that will break when we actually deprecate them. 
I'm definitely not arguing that they should be deprecated with this release 
(that would be obviously far too disruptive given that we've already started 
the beta process), but we really should try and get that taken care of for 
2.061.

- Jonathan M Davis