2015-06-25 21:28 GMT+02:00 Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>:

> On 6/24/15 11:12 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> So I actually implemented this. I made it a std.internal type so it can
>> be used wherever you need to port string concatenation to a chain.
>>
>
> Seems like Andrei has nixed this idea:
>
> "Please no breakages and no clever schemes and no overengineering."
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mmhjqe$2mud$1...@digitalmars.com
>
> Oh well. I'm kind of done with the whole naming thing, there are better
> things I could (and probably should) be doing. Plus arguing against Walter
> and/or Andrei is kind of an uphill battle, especially if they both agree on
> something.
>
> I'll leave the branch up for anyone who wants to continue to try things
> with it, it was a very cool idea.
>
> -Steve
>

And he's right. It is really annoying to update to a new version and have
perfectly valid and working code breaking because someone had a nice idea.
Ideally, we should only ever break code that has a bug in it.

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