On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 09:54:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've had the mispleasure several times of reaching back to
update some older D code of mine, that works fine, and finding
not only will it not compile, I have to re-architect parts of
it.
The situation was so bad I wound up creating:
https://github.com/DigitalMars/undeaD
and if *I* find this annoying, irritating, disheartening, etc.,
I can only imagine how others feel about it.
Why is that a valid argument AGAINST the change, while the exact
same argument was not valid the other way around. You were
confused writing the doc in the first place, and if *You* find it
confusing, you should be able to imagine how others feel about it.
I'm sorry, but it is just backward rationalization.
Imagine you find some cool D library, download it, and find it
doesn't compile. How many of you are going to fix it? Or are
you just going to chuck it to /dev/null?
How many users have we lost because of this?
This really blows. And things like that isnan => isNaN really
has GOT TO STOP. Just today I found it broke some older piece
of code I had that's perfectly correct.
This breaks code without fixing anything. So, because of some
stupid change have been made in the past, that mean that all
change should be avoided ? That is once again bogus logic.
We need to be working on things that MATTER. What happens with
every Reddit post about D? No matter the topic, it always
becomes about D not being usable without the GC.
This change expose bugs. It does matter. isnan vs isNaN does not.
It does not matter. This is not about isNan or about the GC, so
there is no point in bringing these subjects into the
conversation unless the goal is to make everything confusing and
OT.
A big piece of the fix for that is going through Phobos and
fixing code that returns gc allocated arrays with algorithms
that return ranges.
True, but OT.
Why am I the only one working on that? I don't remember anyone
having a problem with isnan.
Red herring. This is not about isnan, never was, never will be.
You are the one trying to bring that up.
