On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 13:37:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 10:10:03 UTC, Pawn wrote:
It's been expressed that there are now too many codebases such
that introducing "breaking changes" would upset many people
and companies. D is a mature language, not a young one.
Just make it opt in at the module level and have the opposite
attributes added. I suggest:
@strict module foo;
And that little @strict (or whatever name) thing indicates you
want newer stuff for the entire module.
No breakage, no community split, very little hassle. Javascript
has had a fair amount of success with opt in stuff like this.
Well, to advance the language, I think we need to start breaking
some egss, but, we also need a magic wand.
Scott Meyers makes the case well, for C++.
http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/breaking-all-eggs-in-c.html
Someone needs to make the case for D too.
