On 3/6/14, 7:52 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/6/2014 7:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/6/2014 6:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Is there any hope of fixing this?
Is there any way we can provide an upgrade path for this? Silent
breakage is
terrible. Any ideas?
Ok, I have a plan. Each step will be separated by at least one version:
1. implement decode() as an algorithm for string types, so one can write:
string s;
s.decode.algorithm...
suggest that people start doing that instead of:
s.algorithm...
2. Emit warning when people use std.array.front(s) with strings.
3. Deprecate std.array.front for strings.
4. Error for std.array.front for strings.
5. Implement new std.array.front for strings that doesn't decode.
This would kill D. I am not exaggerating.
Andrei
