On Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 21:51:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Perhaps, but this change is so straightforward that I would
expect that even a
very large codebase could be updated in a very short space of
time. And since
it'll be generating deprecation messages - not errors - and
it's for a
practice that we've already been discouraging for some time
now, I don't think
that waiting for dfix buys us much. I totally agree that it
would be nice to
have, but I don't see it as a showstopper at all. The only
significant problem
I see is dmd's headergen, because if that's putting const on
the left, then
it'll generate code that will then be warned about, which would
definitely be
bad. The ddoc generation should be fixed to, but that can be
done later,
because the semantics won't have changed; it's just that if you
do it in your
own code, you'll get a deprecation message.
I'd very much like to see this change made sooner rather than
later. I think
that it continues to harm us as long as it isn't changed, and
the change
really doesn't cost much even if your whole codebase needs to
be updated,
because it's very simple and straightforward.
- Jonathan M Davis
The right path forward seems to be deprecating now, but not
removing before dfix can do something good about it.
