version vs. static if

[Gor F. Gyolchanyan]

Why don't you want D to have a backwards compatibility breaking release?
D2 got here, but D1 is still out there and gets it's occasional bug-fixes.

Having a backwards compatibility breaking release is a good way to fix mistakes,
made in the past. Not doing so leads to overly complicated and unintuitive
language like C++, where new functionality is crammed in with sacrifices to
intuitiveness.