[dmd-beta] Migration path for enum Endian?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Probably a good idea would be to enhance the language to allow 
"deprecated" in front of single enum values:

enum Test
{
    a,
    deprecated b,
    c
}

At this point we should pay a great deal of attention to this language 
feature.


Andrei

On 9/6/11 5:39 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Also, I would point out that because you can't deprecate enum values, the only
> deprecation path is to have to have soft migration followed by removal. So, I
> don't know how much code breakage you're really saving by leaving the old enum
> values in temporarily. We can still do it, but the deprecated keyword and
> whatever it brings to the table can't be involved in the process, because you
> can't put attributes on enum values.
>
> Fortunately, there weren't all that many enum values in Phobos which didn't
> follow the correct naming conventions outside of std.socket, and after this
> release, the only enum values with incorrect names should be the ones in
> std.socket, which looks like it's probably going to be revamped anyway.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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