Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 16.11.2014 um 08:44 schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 11/15/2014 11:14 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 16.11.2014 um 05:51 schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> What I find odd about the progress of C++ (11, 14, 17, ...) is that
>>> there has been no concerted effort to make the preprocesser obsolete.
>> What about templates, compile time reflection, modules and compile
>> time code
>> execution?
>
> Competent and prominent C++ coding teams still manage to find complex
> and tangled uses for the preprocessor that rely on the most obscure
> details of how the preprocessor works, and then hang their whole
> codebase on it.
>
> I find it baffling, but there it is. I've made some effort to get rid of
> preprocessor use in the DMD source.
>
>
>> No need for the pre-processor other than textual inclusion and
>> conditional
>> compilation.
>
> Andrei, Herb, and I made a proposal to the C++ committee to introduce
> 'static if'. It was promptly nailed to the wall and executed by firing
> squad. :-)
>

That was quite bad how it happened.