Why version() ?

[Walter Bright]

Jason House wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
> 
>> Jason House wrote:
>>> Would you be willing to introduce an alternative to /+ +/ which
>>> would be treated differently by the D1 and D2 compilers? Here are
>>> some examples with no attempt at creativity: beginD1 endD1 D1 D1
>>> (works like string delimiters) /D2 D2/
>> That is an interesting idea. I never thought of that.
> 
> 
> Would you be willing to add it as a new feature to both D1 and D2?
> 
> I wonder how viable having one code base would be at that point?
> Would druntime be a good way to test that? Druntime would be a good
> guinea pig. I'd really hope a smooth transition for druntime would be
> enough to inspire more projects to support D1and D2 with a single
> code base.

I don't see druntime supporting D1, it's pretty in bed with D2 features.