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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