Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Martin Nowak]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:32:58 +0100, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary  
> compatibility:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
>
> While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about  
> breaking binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big  
> problem with breaking source code compatibility.
>
> This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes.

Definitely.
I think we should gather bugs that require breaking changes and prioritize  
them.

IMHO it's also the main reason to continue fixing imports and protection.  
By now
people mostly still appreciate those fixes but the pain they cause will  
only ever grow.

ABI
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7469