On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:33 AM, ric maicle via Digitalmars-d-learn < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 01:46 AM, anonymous wrote: > >> On Monday 12 October 2015 17:38, ric maicle wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if this small irregularity should be made consistent or >>> maybe I misunderstood something. >>> >> >> As far as I know, the difference just happened, and there is point to it. >> The style without "=" is older and wasn't followed when new switches were >> added. >> >> Consistency between different switches has to be weighed against stability >> here. So far stability has won, I guess. >> > > I think you made it clearer now. And changing it in minor releases will > break build scripts. 'Deprecating' command line switches may be an option > and possibly better addressed in a major release. > > Also, someone may have already filed an issue about this. > Ya I did a while ago: "new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul." http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
