Is it time for D 3.0?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sat Mar 28 07:41:39 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-28 01:53, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > D2 was literally just an 
arbitrary point release in an ongoing
> evolution. 

Yes.

> String literals becoming invariant, for example, happened at 
> 2.006, which was probably the biggest breaking change outside the phobos 
> library. I recall that being a pretty invasive change

String literals have always been placed in read-only sections on Posix. 
In D1, even if the compiler did let you modify string literals it would 
crash at runtime. Perhaps it was only a problem on Windows?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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