On 11/30/2014 6:01 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 03:03:37PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
Keeping around a deprecated alias translating the old symbol to the
new one is a good approach. For a more detailed message, instead of
the @disabled enhancement, a simpler way is:
void fnmatch()(...) {
static assert(0, "use globMatch instead of fnmatch");
}
[...]
That's a good idea.
Thanks! I like pressing existing features into use over inventing new ones :-)
Keep in mind, though, that in this particular case, std.path was
essentially replaced wholesale, so does that mean that every time we
replaced a module, we have to keep the entire old set of symbols around
basically forever?
Why not?
D's module system is very good at avoiding name collisions, and dealing with
them when they do arise. Not only that, it's probably a good idea for new
modules in Phobos to avoid collisions with old names, even when the old names
are removed, so that people are not confused when they try to recompile old
projects.
