[phobos] Why ConvError and not ConvException?

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

You can use a pragma(msg) to mark a whole module, or a template.  But
you need something like deprecated("...") to mark a non-templated
function or type.

-Lars



On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:25 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Can't you use a pragma(msg, ... ) for this ?
> 
> On 17 nov 2010, at 02:08, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
> > On 11/16/10 4:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 13:01:47 David Simcha wrote:
> >>> Once again, *please* put the aliases in for the old names for a few
> >>> releases.  I'm getting really, really sick of having my code break every
> >>> release now that D2 is supposed to be "stable" and I think other D users
> >>> are starting to feel the same way.
> >> 
> >> I think that it should be general policy to use deprecated aliases
> > 
> > A related, very important topic, is that the deprecation message should be user-configurable. I'm thinking something like
> > 
> > deprecated("You may want to use ConvException instead.")
> > 
> > There is no way to achieve that with static if, version, etc. The deprecated warning would spring like now - only when the declaration is actually used.
> > 
> > 
> > Andrei
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