Phobos - breaking existing code

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/28/2014 5:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/28/2014 5:29 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> The point of my answer is that I think the problem raised by Walter can't be
>> solved by Phobos/dmd developers.
>
> Yes, it can be.


1. renaming things to the latest fashion is an illusion of progress, not actual 
progress, such as fnmatch => globMatch

2. deprecated aliases to the old names can be kept for a long time without 
causing problems

3. when removed entirely, the documentation for them should be kept along with 
instructions on corrective action