On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 21:51:54 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
We need to STOP breaking existing code.
This is a small example case where I suggest to break
hypothetical existing code:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2077#issuecomment-49360265
The fear of breaking code should NOT freeze our brains in
terror. For each sigh of broken code could exist one thousand
sighs caused by broken designs that will keep causing troubles
forever.
Your proposal there is much much worse than one to deprecate
`catch()` - it may result in silent change of behavior while this
DIP results in reliable transition process via compile-time error.
In my opinion this is exactly the borderline between "can't break
at all" and "can do if change is reasonable" - having 100%
reliable and simple migration process.
If only we had more casual major releases..
