Re: Another init() bug, can we deprecate yet?
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 23:31:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:03:00PM +, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d wrote: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806 For the lazy: BitArray has an init() method, which hides the property BitArray.init This, or something similar, appears every few months. Walter has said in the past that the ability to override init is a feature. As far as I can tell, no one is using it as a feature; it only seems to cause trouble. Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions named init(). https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2854 Destroy! Thanks. Just to be clear, I'm advocating deprecating all user-defined init functions, not just BitArray (so we don't get into this situation again).
Re: Another init() bug, can we deprecate yet?
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:46:16AM +, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 23:31:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:03:00PM +, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d wrote: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806 For the lazy: BitArray has an init() method, which hides the property BitArray.init This, or something similar, appears every few months. Walter has said in the past that the ability to override init is a feature. As far as I can tell, no one is using it as a feature; it only seems to cause trouble. Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions named init(). https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2854 Destroy! Thanks. Just to be clear, I'm advocating deprecating all user-defined init functions, not just BitArray (so we don't get into this situation again). Yes, but purging it from Phobos first is a first step towards that eventual goal. :-) T -- Береги платье снову, а здоровье смолоду.
Re: Another init() bug, can we deprecate yet?
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:03:00PM +, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d wrote: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806 For the lazy: BitArray has an init() method, which hides the property BitArray.init This, or something similar, appears every few months. Walter has said in the past that the ability to override init is a feature. As far as I can tell, no one is using it as a feature; it only seems to cause trouble. Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions named init(). https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2854 Destroy! T -- You have to expect the unexpected. -- RL
Re: Another init() bug, can we deprecate yet?
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 22:03:01 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions named init(). There's a check for that: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner/blob/master/src/analysis/builtin_property_names.d
Another init() bug, can we deprecate yet?
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806 For the lazy: BitArray has an init() method, which hides the property BitArray.init This, or something similar, appears every few months. Walter has said in the past that the ability to override init is a feature. As far as I can tell, no one is using it as a feature; it only seems to cause trouble. Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions named init().
