On 3/6/2014 7:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/6/2014 6:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Is there any hope of fixing this?
Is there any way we can provide an upgrade path for this? Silent breakage is
terrible. Any ideas?
Ok, I have a plan. Each step will be separated by at least one version:
1. implement decode() as an algorithm for string types, so one can write:
string s;
s.decode.algorithm...
suggest that people start doing that instead of:
s.algorithm...
2. Emit warning when people use std.array.front(s) with strings.
3. Deprecate std.array.front for strings.
4. Error for std.array.front for strings.
5. Implement new std.array.front for strings that doesn't decode.
