[phobos] Time to get ready for the next release

[David Simcha]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Unlike your example, writeln = "hello" is actually valid, correct code.
> That is, it's not utterly stupid, it's just utterly ugly (to you and me).
> If someone wants to call writeln that way because they like the "style",
> then that's their choice.  I see no difference from what you propose.
>
> It's not about the compiler rejecting terrible code because it thinks the
> code is terrible, it's about the compiler rejecting terrible code because
> the library author thinks it's terrible.  That is, the library author can
> decide how you should use their code, just like he decides which functions
> are private and public.
>
>
Right, but I don't *want* the power to control this.  I don't *want *to be
forced to decide such things for my users.  I want my users to be able to do
as they see fit.
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