Editions Ideas

[Dukc]

On Friday, 12 December 2025 at 23:05:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Now that Editions have been implemented (thanks Atila, Dennis, 
> and Rikki) it's time to solicit D features to be dropped from 
> the next Edition of D.

  - Pretty much what is deprecated right now.

  - Maybe C-style alias declarations. The parser will still have 
to recognise them as it can't know which edition the file has but 
still.

  - `@system` by default, if you can come to an agreement in the 
foundation meetings what scheme will follow.

  - `@safe` external functions that don't have a D linkage (they 
would have to be designated `@trusted` instead).

  - All `finally` blocks, and by extension `scope(failure)` and 
destructors running when catching non-`Exception` Throwables. The 
problem is that if a `nothrow` functions throws one, the finally 
block might or might not run. If non-exception throwables would 
be intercepted only with an explicit catch block for one, there 
would be no implementation defined behaviour yet we still could 
have the `nothrow`-based optimisations.