DIP66 has been approved contingent to a few amendments as noted

Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Dec 28 15:05:27 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 22:12:02 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/24/14 4:59 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 15:49:46 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Congratulations, Igor! -- Andrei
>>
>> Good to see that.
>>
>> It is a big feature though with a notable impact on symbol 
>> resolution.
>> How about providing it as a separate compiler build for a 
>> release or two
>> before deploying as part of master?
>
> An emerging pattern (which Walter will effect for dip69) is to 
> initially make it opt-in as a flag:
>
> dip -dip69 test.d
>
>
> Andrei

Where breaking changes are self-contained in a separate
compilation sense, I'd rather have a pragma that effects the hole
module.

Especially changes that prohibit currently allowed code could be
incorporated bit by bit.


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