"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:jjgkb8$s1f$1...@digitalmars.com... > "bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message > news:jjgi8v$p1s$1...@digitalmars.com... >> Walter: >> >>> I'm talking about the name change. It's far and away the most common >>> thing I >>> have to edit when moving code from D1 <=> D2. >> >> We need good/better ways to manage Change and make it faster and less >> painful, instead of refusing almost all change right now. >> Things like more fine-graded deprecation abilities, smarter error >> messages in libraries that suggest how to fix the code, tools that update >> the code (py2to3 or the Go language tool to update the programs), things >> like the strange "future" built-in Python package, and so on. >> > > +1
To elaborate on that, stagnation with thinks that should have been *just fixed* is one of the reasons I got fed up with C++ and went looking for an alternative (and found D). I hate to see D starting to jump into the same boat so soon.
