removal of cruft from D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:he9gba$167d$2 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Yes! Capitalization consistency in the predefined versions! If it needs 
>> to be worded as a "removal", then "Remove version's capitalization 
>> inconsistencies" ;). The current state of that is absolutely ridiculous, 
>> and frankly, a real PITA ("Ok, I need to version for Blah OS...now what 
>> random capitalization did Walter chose to use for that one again...?"). I 
>> don't care about that change breaking existing code: For one thing, it's 
>> D2, it's not supposed to be stable yet, and secondly: Just say "with this 
>> release, grep all your code for "version" and update your 
>> capitalizations", or, better yet, depricate any use of the old names as 
>> errors, and just get the damn issue fixed already!
>
> The choices were not random. They coincided with the common usage of the 
> underlying C compiler.

To the average D user they may as well be random.