"in" no longer "scope" since 2.079.0?

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On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 11:24:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 09:58:11 bauss via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 09:27:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> So now "in" is basically just an alias and serves no real 
>> purpose or is there a plan to eventually make "in" mean 
>> something other than just "const"?
>
> There are no plans at this point to change the meaning of in 
> again. It has been suggested that maybe we could deprecate in 
> and reintroduce it as meaning const scope later, but nothing 
> has been decided beyond the fact that in now officially is just 
> const, because too much code would break when -dip1000 became 
> the normal behavior if in meant const scope.

Well, that's not entirely true - there's a PR: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8021 and it's not too unlikely 
that it will be part of the DIP1000 change or maybe get its own 
transition period. Deprecation it and reintroducing doesn't seem 
to be super popular.