Phobos - breaking existing code

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-12-01 00:03, Walter Bright wrote:

> Keeping around a deprecated alias translating the old symbol to the new
> one is a good approach. For a more detailed message, instead of the
> @disabled enhancement, a simpler way is:
>
>    void fnmatch()(...) {
>      static assert(0, "use globMatch instead of fnmatch");
>    }

That doesn't work for virtual methods. Although I think they are quite 
few in Phobos.

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/Jacob Carlborg