Assignment of shared values

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 23:01:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Now it seems to me that the only way is to adapt Variant to 
> allow such assignments, otherwise we'd be breaking existing 
> code. Thoughts appreciated.
>

I'm still of the opinion that if the change fixes a design flaw 
in the language or breaks code that should not have been allowed 
in the first place, breakage is justified.  This 
no-breaking-changes-allowed trend is preventing D from reaching 
its potential.  In this situation, please break away (pun 
intended).

Mike