DMD 0.154 release

[Georg Wrede]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> pragma wrote:
>>
>>> In article <e1jeql$2vcl$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
>>>
>>>> Had to do an update since --gc-sections broke exception handling.
>>>>
>>>> Also, 'I' and 'l' integer suffixes are deprecated, because in many 
>>>> fonts they are indistinguishable from each other and from '1'.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>>
>>> You're not kidding.  I found it somewhat humorous that the linked 
>>> page exhibits
>>> the very problem you're citing:
>>>
>>> * Numeric suffix '|' now deprecated, use 'L' instead.
>>> * Floating point suffix '|' now deprecated, use 'i' instead.
>>
>> Yup. I got this idea from the JSF document on C++ coding standards. 
>> I've also wondered about disallowing single letter declarations when 
>> those letters are lower case l, upper case I, or upper case O, or if 
>> that is going too far.
> 
> That seems to me to be going too far. Let a style guide do that work, 
> that is 

Let's put it this way: if a programmer insists on using a font where l, 
I, 1, O, 0, etc. have the slightest chance of looking like each other, 
then that programmer is not one we'd want in the D community.

I promised Derek to not put down a certain programming language, but 
let's just say, that anyone with a history of C (or C++), can't in their 
worst nightmares, imagine using a font that doesn't make a difference 
between 0, O, 1, l, I,,, etc.

Having said that, I don't have a specific opinion about what Walter was 
thinking of.