The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took
place on the 14th. It lasted roughly one hour and forty-five
minutes. John Colvin, who has participated in several quarterlies
representing Symmetry, joined us for the first time as a
permanent member of the monthlies.
## The atte
On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took
### Nick
Nick had nothing new for us but did have some comments on the
`-wo` switch. He thought it was great. However, since there's
no indication by default if code is
On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 08:42:17 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Maybe if the compiler detects that deprecated features are
being used it could add a line to the output...
"To check for usage of deprecated features use the '-wo' switch"
A simple 1 line "friendly reminder" instead of pages of
warnin
On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 08:42:17 UTC, claptrap wrote:
A simple 1 line "friendly reminder" instead of pages of
warnings, surely people could live with that?
Well, given that D compiler is also a unittesting tool, codecov
analyzer, documentation generator, profiler, static analyzer,
build
On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 12:20:50 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:
On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 08:42:17 UTC, claptrap wrote:
Maybe if the compiler detects that deprecated features are
being used it could add a line to the output...
"To check for usage of deprecated features use the '-wo'
switch"
A
On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
### Walter
Walter said we had already covered most of what he'd wanted to
talk about. Aside from that, he was focused on bug fixes, going
through the deprecation list, and looking into [adding support
for the ENDBR
instructions](ht
Addressing deprecations, I think deprecation messages are good if
we are writing code that will break things. I would be surprised
if anyone wanted these off by default for *new* code they write.
I can see a case for suppressing new deprecations in existing
code so you don't lose the warns/err
On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
__void initialing Booleans__
Dennis wasn't yet finished. The last item he had for us was [a
PR he had submitted](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15362)
that marks as `@system` the void initialization of a `bool`, or
anything that
On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took
place on the 14th.
[...]
The idea was that once a library works in D and is debugged, it
will stay working in D unless it's something we can't live with
in older code.