On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:48:03 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:25:01 UTC, Era Scarecrow
wrote:
I'm almost tempted to suggest a tool that would update changes
to source code when some of these things happen, dealing with
most of these types of problems.
Waaaait. Hang on. *I* wrote something like that. The problem is
that nobody wants to make breaking changes even though dfix
exists.
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix
If the fixes are easily automated requiring no intervention
(other than running a tool) then i would totally push for these
changes; Probably have a reminder notes during each release for
people unaware of dfix that it will fix these changes to source
code.
Worst case for not breaking code ultimately goes to users not
updating the compiler.
