On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 at 14:46:10 UTC, Dukc wrote:
I (finally) managed to build the development build of dmd, with
libraries. When testing if it compiles a Hello World program
(it does, no problem) I got these messages:
C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(2716,24):
Deprecation: function std.utf.toUTF8 is deprecated - To be
removed November 2017. Please use std.utf.encode instead.
C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(2716,24):
Deprecation: function std.utf.toUTF8 is deprecated - To be
removed November 2017. Please use std.utf.encode instead.
C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\stdio.d(2727,40):
Deprecation: function std.utf.toUTF8 is deprecated - To be
removed November 2017. Please use std.utf.encode instead.
If I output a dstring instead, those messages vanish. Does that
mean we're getting rid of autodecoding?
Sadly no. Just of old pre auto-decoding code.
If that's the case, have nothing against that. In fact it is
nice to have that deprecation to catch bugs. I just thought,
due to an earlier forum discussion, that it's not going to
happen because it could break too much code. That's why I'm
asking...
No - this is just a deprecation of a specific overload of toUTF8.
See this PR for details:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5083
However, this deprecation warning was fixed subsequently in:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5143
So are you on LATEST? ;-)
