Deprecated Library Functions / Methods

[bearophile]

Chris:

> I started with D2 version 2.051 and created a medium-sized 
> project fairly quickly, but now I have a lot of deprecated 
> methods in my code. I couldn't keep up with all the changes and 
> I have been hesitant to update my code because there are still 
> a lot of "Will be removed in September/November/December ..." 
> warnings in the library. Much that I like D, I simply cannot 
> develop in D at the moment due to the constant changes in the 
> Phobos library. I have this sinking feeling that this is 
> killing the language.

Phobos is young, and several of its parts were designed by one or 
very few persons. So I think some changes are inevitable. 
Deprecation messages have the purpose to reduce the pain of 
updated. So those are not killing the language.

In Phobos some changes are planned or are expected, like in 
std.algorithm.max/min, reduce, etc.

Bye,
bearophile