version(noboundscheck) + friends

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, June 03, 2013 16:49:29 Timothee Cour wrote:
> I meant 'why not have version(noboundscheck) instead of
> version(D_NoBoundsChecks)'
> of course.

So, you're complaining about the name of the version identifier? I thought that 
you were complaining that we were using a flag instead a version identifier to 
turn on noboundscheck.

I don't know why that name was chosen or even who chose it. If you look at the 
list of official identifiers, you can see that it's pretty arbitrary as to what 
the exact naming scheme is. Not even the casing is consistent. So, I expect 
that D_NoBoundsCheck was chosen simply because whoever picked it thought that 
it best followed the generally naming scheme, or they just preferred that 
name. As it stands, there's really no hope of being able to figure out what any 
of the official version identifiers are without looking them up and memorizing 
them - including the spelling and whatever other naming quirks that particular 
identifier may have. And unfortunately, there's no way that that's going to be 
fixed at this point due to code breakage that it would cause.

You might be able to get D_NoBoundsChecks changed given how new it is, but I 
don't know.

- Jonathan M Davis