DIP1000: Scoped Pointers (Discussion)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/14/2016 2:12 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On 08/14/2016 10:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hmm, but we've always done warning => deprecation => error
> Yes, and it was a major disaster because most sensible projects compile
> with warnings as errors enabled (it is also the default in dub) and thus
> putting a warning breaks a many more times more code than putting a
> deprecation. We have already talked that through before with Martin and
> it seemed acknowledged that pattern has to be changed to "deprecation ->
> (optional warning) -> error".

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!