On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 09:46:16AM +0000, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 23:31:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d > wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 10:03:00PM +0000, Peter Alexander via > >Digitalmars-d wrote: > >>https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13806 > >> > >>For the lazy: BitArray has an init() method, which hides the > >>property BitArray.init > >> > >>This, or something similar, appears every few months. Walter has > >>said in the past that the ability to override init is a feature. As > >>far as I can tell, no one is using it as a feature; it only seems to > >>cause trouble. > >> > >>Can we just deprecate it? At the very least deprecate functions > >>named init(). > > > >https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2854 > > > >Destroy! > > Thanks. Just to be clear, I'm advocating deprecating all user-defined > init functions, not just BitArray (so we don't get into this situation > again).
Yes, but purging it from Phobos first is a first step towards that eventual goal. :-) T -- Береги платье снову, а здоровье смолоду.
