new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

[Dejan Lekic]

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 15:29:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 5/21/13 5:44 AM, Timothee Cour wrote:
>> Abstract:
>> This DIP seeks to improve dmd and rdmd's command line flags, 
>> to make it
>> more self-consistent and consistent with other tools 
>> (including other D
>> compilers), more expandable, avoid existing corner cases, and 
>> better
>> interact with other tools such as rdmd. It also proposes new 
>> flags and
>> proposes a simple deprecation path to follow.
>>
>> Link:
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP41
>
> I think this DIP should be rejected. Even if implemented to 
> perfection it would do nothing to make D better.
>
> Overhauling command line syntax would only help if the 
> situation was unbearable or if people couldn't do what they 
> wanted to do. As things go I find the situation marginally 
> clunkier than it could be, but command line syntax can never be 
> beautiful or perfect.
>
>
> Andrei

Andrei, there is a perfect, diplomatic solution to this - you 
make a survey of D community, and if the majority votes "YES" for 
a breaking change, then after that when someone complains, you 
just give that person a link to the survey result, with a comment 
"you asked for it!".