On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:12:10 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
And no, it doesn't matter how the current frontend implements it, because you can argue next to any decisions this way.
When issues like this come up the spec is almost always changed to match the DMD front end instead of the other way around.
Why are we afraid of breaking code that relied on behavior that was not in the language specification? That makes it almost impossible to fix accepts-invalid bugs.
