Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-03-2012 00:14, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:46:24PM +0100, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> On 09-03-2012 23:32, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary compatibility:
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
>>>
>>> While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about
>>> breaking binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big
>>> problem with breaking source code compatibility.
>>>
>>> This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes.
>>
>> If we want to start being able to avoid breaking changes, we
>> *really* need to finally deprecate the stuff that's been slated for
>> deprecation for ages...
> [...]
>
> Does that include std.stdio and std.stream? When are we expecting std.io
> to be ready?
>
> IMHO, this is one major change that needs to happen sooner rather than
> later. The current lack of interoperability between std.stdio and
> std.stream is a big detraction from Phobos' overall quality.
>
>
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Well, I was mostly thinking language-wise. But yeah, those too.

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- Alex