Le 13/03/2014 07:47, Walter Bright a écrit :
On 3/12/2014 10:30 PM, Manu wrote:
Again, this is conflating random breakage with controlled deprecation.
A clear message with a file:line that says "virtual-by-default is
deprecated,
add 'virtual' _right here_." is not comparable to the behaviour of
byLine()
silently changing from release to release and creating some bugs, or
std.json
breaking unexpectedly with no warning.
In the case I experienced, I got a clear compiler message. I knew what
to fix. It still sucked. It was "fixing" non-buggy code that was
intentionally written that way.
I don't have as much of a problem breaking things that were already
broken and happened to work out of luck, but that isn't the case here.
Maybe if changes are really simple a tool can help? Tools are needed for
such kind of refactoring can be done automatically.
For some old games I wrote a script converter cause we completely broke
the syntax (from XML to Lua) with a version of our engine, we do that
because news features of engine was requested for next games updates.
It can appear like a time wasting, but it was fun to do.
