version(number) is completely useless

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:19:44PM +0000, Andrey Zherikov via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 13:27:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > ```
> > 	static if (__VERSION__ == 2098L) {
> > 		... // 2.098-specific code
> > 	}
> > 	static if (__VERSION__ == 2100L) {
> > 		... // 2.100-specific code
> > 	}
> > 	// and so on
> > ```
> 
> This is discouraged usage according to Walter, isn't it?

I guess so. :-D

So maybe we need a DIP to add feature-based version identifiers, e.g.:

	version(fixed12345) { ... /* bug 12345 is fixed */ }
	version(dip1000) { ... }
	version(intpromote) { ... }

and so on.


T

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