"Don" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
I agree completely.
Some things that really should be fixed, don't get fixed because of a
paranoid fear of breaking code. And this tends to happen with the issues
that can give nice warning messages and are easy to fix...
Yet there are still enough bugs that your code breaks every release
anyway.
We need to lose the fantasy that there is legacy code which still
compiles.
Anything more than a year or so old is broken already.
As usual I agree with every single thing in this post, and Sean's.
Regressions are bad but have nothing to do with using slow, controlled
deprecation to make the language better.
