Destroying structs (literally)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:59:07 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:21:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Dear community, are you ready for this?
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2834
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/864
>>
>> We must do it, and the way I see it the earlier the better. 
>> Shall we do it in 2.067?
>>
>> This is a significant change of behavior. Should we provide a 
>> temporary flag or attribute to disable it?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I think providing rollback transition flag is simply a matter 
> of politeness even if in this specific case it makes no sense 
> to rely on existing broken behavior.

Since this is in the library, not the compiler, I'm not sure how 
you'd do that (have the compiler specific a version identifier 
for it?), but considering how broken the behavior was before and 
that we don't normally provide flags to revert changes in 
behavior, I'd argue that anyone who has problems with it should 
just use the previous version of the compiler until they're ready 
to update their code. It's not like we want to support the old 
behavior for any real period of time anyway. It's just plain 
broken.

- Jonathan M Davis