D versionning

[Walter Bright]

On 7/15/2012 4:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> It needs to stop completely.
>
> Most of the renaming of functions which has gone on has been because Phobos
> has been inconsistent with its naming, which makes it harder to use and learn.
> As that's sorted out (as has mostly been done), those changes will stop. But
> do you honestly expect that everything in the standard library is going to be
> frozen at some point? Is that what you're suggesting?

I've had a lot of my own working D code break because of name changes in Phobos. 
This is extremely annoying. I can fully understand that it drives people away. 
It's got to stop.

We could bikeshed forever about what exact spelling and casing a name should 
have. That's fine for new names. Old names should stay.

Breaking things should have a very high bar. Merely a name change is not good 
enough.