DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jul 9 15:51:52 PDT 2008


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:g534cj$1jav$2 at digitalmars.com...
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> But it's a breaking change that people asked for two years ago, before D 
>>> 2.0 was announced.  Besides, breaking changes are made to D 1.0 all the 
>>> time anyway, as evidenced by the fact that all of the past 4 DMD 1.x 
>>> releases have broken Tango in one way or another.  I grant that, as a 
>>> silent breaking change this is somewhat of a bigger deal, but I suspect 
>>> that our users would gladly change their code to have this in 1.0.
>> Creating a spec-changing breaking change for D 1.0 is not its charter, 
>> which is to be a stable release of D that is not getting breaking spec 
>> changes.
> 
> Uh, .init? 


If you want to beat me over the head with that one, I deserve it. But it 
was also shortly after 1.0 was released, not years later.


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