On 11/28/2014 5:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/28/2014 5:29 PM, bearophile wrote:
The point of my answer is that I think the problem raised by Walter can't be
solved by Phobos/dmd developers.
Yes, it can be.
1. renaming things to the latest fashion is an illusion of progress, not actual
progress, such as fnmatch => globMatch
2. deprecated aliases to the old names can be kept for a long time without
causing problems
3. when removed entirely, the documentation for them should be kept along with
instructions on corrective action
