On 3/23/14, 5:41 PM, Meta wrote:
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 20:56:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Discuss: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3399
Andrei
You mentioned on the Github PR that this broke some Phobos (and
Druntime?) code. What was the extent of the breakage? If it's small, I'd
say give it a year-long deprecation period and then be done with it
forever.
The extent of the breakage is NOT among the top factors. Once a piece of
code goes from "compiles" to "doesn't compile" that lowers the
acceptance level by an order of magnitude. Only after that, the extent
of the breakage has any import.
Top factors:
0. Any silent breakages or changes in semantics? 100000000x
1. How frequent is the breakage? Is most code going to still work? 100x
2. How much does fixing the breakage improve code? Was the breaking code
incorrect for the most part? 100x
Andrei
