[phobos] Deprecation of std.date

[Walter Bright]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 16 January 2011 11:48:36 Walter Bright wrote:
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>> Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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>>> Regardless, there will be one function - the version
>>> std.file.lastModified which just takes the file name - which will break
>>> the build of anyone using it, because the only thing changing in its
>>> signature is its return type (SysTime instead of d_time), so there's no
>>> way to overload it. Fortunately, however, I think that it's the only
>>> function in that boat.
>>>       
>> It needs to have a different name if its return type changes.
>>     
>
> Okay, then. If that's how you'd prefer to do it, then I guess that that's what 
> I'll do - though nothing immediately comes to mind as an alternate name for 
> lastModified. I'll have to brainstorm a bit, I guess.
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The reason is to not muck up existing user code, which I think is a 
worthy goal.