Phobos - breaking existing code

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Nov 29 14:42:30 PST 2014


On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 02:24:46PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 11/29/2014 1:56 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >There's also the issue of symbols that got moved to a different
> >module.  Sometimes leaving an alias behind is not workable, because
> >it will cause conflicts when user code imports both modules. Unless,
> >of course, we change overload rules to allow such apparent conflicts
> >when they actually ultimately resolve to the same symbol in the end.
> 
> Aliases that resolve to the same symbol was a bug fixed long ago. If
> this has resurfaced, please file a bugzilla.

Ah, so I'm outdated. That's good to know. :-)


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