On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:13:51 +0200 Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't mind deprecating the syntax that nobody likes. I mind the > idea of removing it, because has the potential to break old code for > no particularly good reason. there is good reason: this syntax is confusing. if it will stay as deprecated, newcomers will have just one more question: "why it's still here?" and about breaking old code. if this code is so old that nobody will fix it... well, one can use old compiler to build that code. but that code rot many years ago anyway: it's unmaintained. it *will* break sooner or later, there is no sane reason to trying to keep zombie alive, zombies must be destroyed.
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