if(arr) now a warning

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Apr 30 10:16:41 PDT 2015


On 4/30/15 9:50 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
> news:mhtggg$26b5$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> I think we need to stop here. I'll make the PR today for reverting
>> this language change. We can't handle D like a semester science
>> project, because for as long as we do we won't have credibility.
>
>> This trickle of teeny-bit breaking changes for the sake of touted
>> benefits must stop.
>
> This breaking change prevents hard-to-find bugs.  The fact that you
> needed to make trivial changes to 39 places in std.allocator doesn't
> negate this.

Nothing negates that. It's a judgment call. Please let's stop here. 
Thanks. -- Andrei


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