On 3/7/18 1:00 AM, Taylor Hillegeist wrote:
So i've seen on the forum over the years arguments about auto-decoding
(mostly) and some other things. Things that have been considered
mistakes, and cannot be corrected because of the breaking changes it
would create. And I always wonder why not make a solution to the tune of
a flag that makes things work as they used too, and make the new
behavior default.
dmd --UseAutoDecoding
That way the breaking change was easily fixable, and the mistakes of the
past not forever. Is it just the cost of maintenance?
Note, autodecoding is NOT a feature of the language, but rather a
feature of Phobos.
It would be quite interesting I think to create a modified phobos where
autodecoding was optional and see what happens (could be switched with a
-version=autodecoding). It wouldn't take much effort -- just take out
the specializations for strings in std.array.
-Steve
