Deprecations: Any reason left for warning stage?

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 15:13:28 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> But that's a good thing - the people who get their code broken 
> are the people who are asking for it with '-w'.

I don't think there is much merit to this argument.

First, it's not like the ability to make diagnostics halt the 
build is something specific to Warnings. Just pass -de and use of 
deprecated symbols will halt compilation too. (Actually, not 
passing -de would lead to a funny 
error(Warning)->warning(Deprecation)->error(Error) progression 
right now.)

Second, if I'm using "-w", I'm typically interested in errors if 
I write fishy code, not because some third-party library I just 
updated made a small change to its API. I don't see where the 
advantage would be in conflating the two things.

David