On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 15:29:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 5/21/13 5:44 AM, Timothee Cour wrote:
Abstract:
This DIP seeks to improve dmd and rdmd's command line flags,
to make it
more self-consistent and consistent with other tools
(including other D
compilers), more expandable, avoid existing corner cases, and
better
interact with other tools such as rdmd. It also proposes new
flags and
proposes a simple deprecation path to follow.
Link:
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP41
I think this DIP should be rejected. Even if implemented to
perfection it would do nothing to make D better.
Overhauling command line syntax would only help if the
situation was unbearable or if people couldn't do what they
wanted to do. As things go I find the situation marginally
clunkier than it could be, but command line syntax can never be
beautiful or perfect.
Andrei
Andrei, there is a perfect, diplomatic solution to this - you
make a survey of D community, and if the majority votes "YES" for
a breaking change, then after that when someone complains, you
just give that person a link to the survey result, with a comment
"you asked for it!".
