Phobos and older DMD versions

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 8/7/13, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not just about new features in DMD that phobos wants to use.
> dmd bugs are fixed for phobos, I'd say, on a twice by week basis
> (roughly).

Yep. Backwards compatibility would be nice but currently we just can't
afford it. But as far as I know isn't this the same for C++? E.g. I
don't know whether a newer GCC version necessarily compiles an older
C++ stdlib?