On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 15:57:12 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
On 2/27/13, Timon Gehr <[email protected]> wrote:
I think the only technical problem of DIP27 outside the
optional
parentheses part is that it does not specify what
is(T==function) will do.
The only problem? How about breaking every single piece of code
ever
written in D?
It seems to me like people assume we can easily force people to
rewrite everything. It ain't gonna happen. This DIP was DOA
from the
start.
That is fallacy. PHP did massive breaking changes from 5 to 5 and
still managed the change. And believe me, you'll find *WAY* more
code written in PHP than in D even at the time.
Breaking are not a problem in themselves and this reaction tells
us more about our inability to do the most basic release
management than anything else.
On a more personal level, every single version of dmd break my
code, so I'm kind of fed up when people don't want to fix actual
broken stuff to not break code. D break code all the time, that
is a fact already. Many breakage don't even have a good reason to
exists (alias this syntax, I'm looking at you, but you are not
the only one).
