On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:46:23 AM MDT Laurent Tréguier via Digitalmars-d wrote: > From dmd's help: > ``` > -d silently allow deprecated features > -dw show use of deprecated features as warnings > (default) > -de show use of deprecated features as errors > (halt compilation) > ``` > Deprecations are shown as warnings and not simple messages it > seems. But this is probably just a matter of wording here, so not > really relevant I think.
It's definitely a matter of wording and thus arguably should be changed. For instance, if they were actually warnings, -w would turn a deprecation message into an error like -de does, and it doesn't. They're frequently called deprecation warnings, so it's no surprise that the flag would be -dw or that the help information would say that, but from the stand point of what flags like -w consider to be warnings, they're not warnings. - Jonathan M Davis
