Why not flag away the mistakes of the past?
jmh530
john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 12:09:22 UTC 2018
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 06:00:30 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
> So i've seen on the forum over the years arguments about
> auto-decoding (mostly) and some other things. Things that have
> been considered mistakes, and cannot be corrected because of
> the breaking changes it would create. And I always wonder why
> not make a solution to the tune of a flag that makes things
> work as they used too, and make the new behavior default.
>
> dmd --UseAutoDecoding
>
> That way the breaking change was easily fixable, and the
> mistakes of the past not forever. Is it just the cost of
> maintenance?
That's the approach used for most things, but there's a lot of
things that rely on auto-decoding, so it would be a big effort to
actually implement that.
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