Alias syntax removal - 2.061 changelog
Nick Treleaven
ntrel-public at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 11 05:58:52 PST 2013
On 11/02/2013 10:46, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 13:13, bearophile wrote:
>> Now I have a good amount of code broken by:
>>
>> alias x = 5;
>> alias this = foo;
>
> Was this ever documented? How many people ever knew this syntax
> existed? Not me....
The 2.061 changelog has a 'new/changed features' link to bugzilla items,
where there's an item 'alias should have assignment syntax'.
There are two issues with this approach:
1. Alias assignment syntax is (probably) a more interesting change to
many D users than quite a few of the other new/changed items listed. It
is buried amongst some less interesting items.
2. Being a bugzilla item title it doesn't contain syntax examples, which
is what a changelog reader would like to see.
The new deprecated switches item did get a paragraph in the changelog,
but other significant changes did not.
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