DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

[Sean Kelly]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Jarrett Billingsley" wrote
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:g52v0a$13hh$5 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Koroskin Denis wrote:
>>>> Maybe, but so-called stable version should provide bug-compatibility as 
>>>> well :)
>>>> But then, there are people who want to have certain breaking bugs fixed. 
>>>> Can't please everyone.
>>> And we also have #288 where Sean wants a breaking language change put 
>>> into 1.0. I cannot justify that, but fixing bugs where invalid code was 
>>> accepted is justifiable.
>> I agree with your decision not to fix 288 in D1, but it *is* frustrating 
>> to have bugs that were reported when D2 was not even a twinkle in your eye 
>> not being fixed until D2.
> 
> I have to say I wish D1 did have opEquals returning bool, but I'm on 
> Walter's side on not changing it now.  This is not a bug, but a design 
> change.  The original version (returning int) worked as designed, there was 
> nothing 'broken' about it.

I'd consider this broken about it:

     bool isEqual( Object x, Object y )
     {
         return x == y; // fails
     }

You have to cast the result to bool.


Sean