DMD 0.154 release

[clayasaurus]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> 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.
> 

What about if they are using an IDE with support for 1 font only?