Thoughts on versioning

[bauss]

On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 01:36:24 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 01:23:44 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> The A and W API are funadementally there because it's a C API.
>
> That's irrelevant. They do actually overload it with macros.
>
> The point is the old functions - the A ones - are kept around 
> but simply forward to the new functions - the W ones - after 
> doing some compatibility transformations.
>
> That is a viable path for Phobos. The existing std.x functions 
> can forward to std.v2.x as appropriate.

Yes and no, if it's done subtle and you don't know which 
functions change it could possibly lead to silent bugs.