Dealing with Autodecode
Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 1 04:11:11 PDT 2016
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 01:36:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 00:46:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It is not practical to just delete or deprecate autodecode
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> We need to stop holding on to the mistakes of the past. 9 of 10
> dentists agree that autodecoding is a mistake. Not just WAS a
> mistake, IS a mistake. It has ongoing cost. If we don't fix our
> attitude about these problems, we are going to turn into that
> very demon we despise, yea, even the next C++!
>
Please, just remove auto-decoding, any way you want. I only ever
used it once or twice voluntarily. It's a special case that must
go.
Maybe with a flag like for -vtls.
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