On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 23:56:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I know there's been some long term unhappiness about the
deprecated attribute - it's all-or-nothing approach, poor
messages, etc. Each change in it changes the language and the
compiler.
Perhaps it could be done with a user defined attribute instead?
Anyone want to take on the challenge?
Good plan. On a side note when can we expect some progress on
stabilizing the language and fixing ~2000 bugs? After a couple of
more random unnecessary breaking changes, or do you anticipate it
happening before that?