https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13388
--- Comment #20 from Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> --- Who does the work is irrelevant. It's the fact that it will break code for marginal benefit. I'm done discussing this. I've made my views clear. Regardless of what I think on the matter, it's Walter and Andrei that you have to convince, and I would be shocked if you could. Increasingly, they're of the opinion that breaking changes aren't worth it at this point in the game. So, any breaking change that we make must bring a large benefit. The result of that is that things like renaming functions - or function attributes - are no longer considered to be worth the cost. Walter in particular considers it to be just shuffling things around and highly detrimental to the language. If you want the attribute situation changed, then find a way to convince Andrei and Walter. Without that, it'll never happen. --