[dmd-beta] dmd 2.064 beta take 2

[Михаил Страшун]

I must resist the temptation to continue discussion about type system
:) Should be a newsgroup topic created about it?

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Don Clugston <dclugston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you find unacceptable/inconvenient in "-transition=XXX" approach?
>
> Because 100% of existing cases must be changed.
>
> This isn't even like static variables becoming shared by default, where some
> of the cases needed to change to __gshared but the rest were OK with
> becoming shared.
> Every existing usage becomes a bug. There are no exceptions

But how it is different from marking it as an illegal? In one case you
get error messages, in other - the very same but optional error
messages. Am I missing something?