On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 at 08:08:28 UTC, yawniek wrote:
i have seen many PR's and also Forum entries that deal with the
problem of newer features of the compiler not being able and
then patching or working around that to support older compiler
versions.
For end-users it is always good to support a lot of versions.
For me its the opposite; that handwritten loop I wrote to replace
groupBy - while only being 6 loc - had a bug; I had to install
dvm to compile with 2.066 and it didn't work in cygwin / mingw,
so I had to manually edit environment variables.
Maybe D needs a compatibility library that has backports for all
the new fancy stuff. Then again, I rather write the occasional
classic loop than double/triple the work on new features.
