On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 09:57:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I.e. it's "why", not "why not" make a breaking change. Especially since it is apparently a commonly used coding pattern, appearing 25 times in Phobos alone.
It is used 0 times in Phobos. In fact I have not seen it used for a single time in any living project - guess because any sane person understands how terrible of a misfeature it is.
