On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:12:29 -0400, Nick Treleaven
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 27/03/2014 04:24, Mike wrote:
I would like to update the deprecated features page
(http://dlang.org/deprecate.html), but I don't have the historical
I think that page is for language deprecations rather than Phobos ones.
clear is part of the language, and runtime. Not phobos. It's akin to
string.
perspective to do it properly, so I'm asking:
1. When was it introduced?
Before TDPL came out. It was intended somewhat to do the job of delete (a
to-be-deprecated feature), but without the memory deallocation.
4. Is it safe to remove from object.di and kill it officially?
Does it cause a problem to keep it there? Any problems have to be
weighed against the breakage of existing code.
Yes, typically, one imagines calling clear on a container to clear all the
elements, not destroy the container itself.
The advent of UFCS makes this prone to confusion.
That being said, I don't know the deprecation schedule, if there is one.
-Steve
