eliminate junk from std.string?

[spir]

On 01/12/2011 02:17 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Somewhere in this thread:
>
> Am 11.01.2011 21:43, schrieb Walter Bright:
>  > Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>  >> I agree with this reasoning for having them. However, I don't think it
>  >> means we shouldn't D-ify or Phobos-ify them, at least as far as
>  >> capitalization conventions.
>  >
>  > I also object to rather pointlessly annoying people wanting to move
>  > their code from D1 to D2 by renaming everything. Endlessly renaming
>  > things searching for the perfect name gives the illusion of progress,
>  > whereas time would be better spent on improving the documentation,
>  > unittests, performance, etc.
>  >
>
> So his objection was specifically that renaming those functions could
> annoy people migrating D1 code (and certainly he meant Phobos1 users,
> because Tango-people either port (parts of) Tango or will have to
> rewrite that anyway).
> So, to accomplish that goal (not annoying those people), these aliases
> should be kept for longer.
>
> (An alternative may be to one/some phobos1-compat modules that contain
> such aliases and maybe even wrappers with old signatures for new
> functions, that could be imported to ease porting of old applications.
> That would have the benefit of not cluttering the regular Phobos2
> modules with that legacy stuff.)

When D2 / Phobos2 stabilise, what about a semi-automatic porting tool 
(at least signaling potential issues, first of all occurrences of 
deprecated stdlib names)?

Denis
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