On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 22:45:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Having a release process does not remove the pain of breaking changes that make users miserable because their older code no longer compiles.
What about providing a tool to automatically perform the transform necessary to fix the code (w.r.t. the breaking change)? That should be feasible in many cases, and there are languages that have gone down this route already (Python 3 partially, Go fully, if I'm not mistaken). gath
