Russel Winder wrote: > My second reaction was "Jonathan should not have had to write such > a long email in reply, he should have been able to say 'Please go > read <URL>' for an explanation."
Better yet, that url could be right there in the deprecated message. "std.date and std.dateparse are deprecated. Use std.datetime instead. More: <wiki link to migration guide>" When something is renamed, just listing the new name is enough since that's everything you need to know. But a whole new module needs a brain shift and a link can do that better than a one line message. While it looks like everything I'd need to know is in the std. datetime docs, they are just rather long... I looked at that and figured reading from front to back would take too long, especially considering the basic tasks I was asking of it. So then I did a search for the std.date names, and only got the deprecated functions! So it was a scary way to get started.