On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 12:52:49 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Adam D. Ruppe:
The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the
old names before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe
they haven't fully deprecated it though because there's other
reasons I don't know about, since it has been many years now
since the move.
In D/Phobos/Dmd there is a ton of stuff that's supposed to be
obsolete, that should not be used, that is deprecated, etc. I
presume Walter thinks that the problems caused from keeping it
and from unwanted usages of it, is smaller than the breaking
troubles caused by removing it. I am person that likes to keeps
things ordered and clean, so I prefer to remove old stuff after
a
suitable deprecation period, instead of keeping it around almost
forever (like floating point special comparison operators).
Bye,
bearophile
I agree.
Also the website needs updating to deter people from using std.c:
http://dlang.org/phobos/#stdio
