[phobos] Deprecation of std.date

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Sat Jan 15 21:50:53 PST 2011



Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> And from the looks of it, _anyone_ using std.file will end up getting those 
> pragma messages, even if they _don't_ use std.date or std.dateparse at all, 
> simply because std.file uses them for functions which are going to be deprecated. 
> So, it seems to me that it's going to be highly annoying all around to use the 
> pragmas instead of just deprecating them. I expect that if the pragmas weren't 
> as heavy-handed, it wouldn't be as big an issue, but they seem to print just 
> because you used a module that used a module that has such a pragma in it - even 
> if you didn't directly or indirectly use any of the functionality which was 
> scheduled for deprecation.
>
>   

Then leave the pragmas off.


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