Phobos - breaking existing code

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:22:54PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 11/30/2014 7:36 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >Good idea! We should archive docs from older versions of Phobos and
> >make them accessible on dlang.org. I'm working on revamping some
> >parts of the Phobos docs build; once that's in, it might not be too
> >hard to make it also generate docs for older releases.
> 
> I decided to try and update DMDScript from D1 to D2. Thousands and
> thousands of error messages :-(

Well... upgrading from C to C++ involves... close to zero error
messages. But that's not necessarily a good thing, as I'm sure you'll
agree! I think in many ways, D2 is a far different language than D1, and
it'd be unrealistic to expect D1 code to compile with D2 without a fair
amount of changes.


T

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