Final by default?

[Kapps]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 17:08:05 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
> Le 13/03/2014 07:47, Walter Bright a écrit :
>
> Maybe if changes are really simple a tool can help? Tools are 
> needed for such kind of refactoring can be done automatically.
>
> For some old games I wrote a script converter cause we 
> completely broke the syntax (from XML to Lua) with a version of 
> our engine, we do that because news features of engine was 
> requested for next games updates.
> It can appear like a time wasting, but it was fun to do.

It's difficult to have such a tool in D that can safely handle
all situations (mixins in particular make it particularly
difficult). Though something probably be made that can handle the
vast majority of situations after being confirmed by the user
that the changes are acceptable.