Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Travis Boucher" <boucher.tra...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Yigal Chripun wrote:
Based on recent discussions on the NG a few features were
deprecated/removed from D, such as typedef and C style struct
initializers.
IMO this cleanup and polish is important and all successful languages do
such cleanup for major releases (Python and Ruby come to mind). I'm glad
to see that D follows in those footsteps instead of accumulating craft
like C++ does.
As part of this trend of cleaning up D before the release of D2, what
other features/craft should be removed/deprecated?
I suggest reverse_foreach and c style function pointers
please add your candidates for removal.
Make version() statements case insensitive, although I guess that would be
addition and not removal. Either that, or add the common cases for all
reserved version keywords (or at least some consistency, linux and
FreeBSD).
Yes! Capitalization consistency in the predefined versions! If it needs to
be worded as a "removal", then "Remove version's capitalization
inconsistencies" ;). The current state of that is absolutely ridiculous, and
frankly, a real PITA ("Ok, I need to version for Blah OS...now what random
capitalization did Walter chose to use for that one again...?"). I don't
care about that change breaking existing code: For one thing, it's D2, it's
not supposed to be stable yet, and secondly: Just say "with this release,
grep all your code for "version" and update your capitalizations", or,
better yet, depricate any use of the old names as errors, and just get the
damn issue fixed already!
In alot of places, I think he tried to use GCC's capitalization. It is
implementation defined, which makes sense since some implementation
target different things. However, I think the specs should say either
'version statements are not case sensitive' or 'implementation-defined
versions much all be in (lower|UPPER) case'.
