Why is `scope` planned for deprecation?

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On Monday, 17 November 2014 at 13:39:05 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> I am fully aware how UNIX designers decided to ignore the 
> systems programming being done in Algol variants, PL/I variants 
> and many other wannabe systems programming languages that came 
> before C.

I wouldn't say that Algol is a systems programming language, and 
Pascal originally only had fixed width strings!

(But Simula actually had decent GC backed string support with 
substrings pointing to the same buffer and a link to the full 
buffer from substrings, thus somewhat more advanced than D ;-)