version(number) is completely useless

Mike Parker aldacron at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 15:26:55 UTC 2022


On Friday, 22 July 2022 at 13:36:37 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

> I'm thinking about newer versions with incremental additions.
> When I was looking into directx-d bindings, most of newer 
> version depends on older version unless they change its major. 
> The same thing could be applied to:
>
> ```d
> version(SDL.2.5.5)
> ...
> version(SDL.2.5.0) //Ok
> version(SDL.2.4) //not ok
> ```

And then you're baking a library versioning scheme into the 
language. Not sure about that.


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