Deprecation: foreach: loop index implicitly converted from size_t to int

[user1234]

On Friday, 3 May 2024 at 10:50:03 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> Why am I forced to visit this D Lang thread, why this 
> deprecation warning still appears in my console window in the 
> latest version of DMD. Does not make any sense from the 
> developer's perspective to show this warning and pollute the 
> already polluted logging entries of the compiler. How am I 
> suppose to program anything effectively if half of the screen 
> are some nonsensical deprecation warnings without guidance or 
> sane explanations.
>
> This is not better
> ```
>     foreach (i, row; arr)
> ```
> than
> ```
>     foreach (int i, row; arr)
> ```
> Hides the datatype and makes the D language appear in-explicit 
> and annoying.
>
> What is this language becoming. A completely weak typed 
> language or something?
>
> I would use JavaScript if I would want that. How are we suppose 
> to make whole sane Operating Systems with such syntaxes. Do 
> everyone just enjoy having bugs with some implicit size_t, or 
> do everyone just enjoy deprecation warnings in their logging 
> systems when there are way more important problems to solve, 
> that are actually project related.

You can specify the index type, just choose the right one. For 
now there's a deprecation message but after some while you'll get 
a proper error message, e.g _"index type for arr must be of type 
T because arr.length type is T"_.

What's is happening now is to help people updating their code and 
prevent abrupt breakages.