On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 19:26:04 UTC, Witold Baryluk wrote:
On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 17:26:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to
the 34 contributors.
Thanks for the beta Iain.
Functions can no longer have enum storage class
This looks like a breaking change that can affect people. There
should be a deprecation (6-12 months) period to give people
notice to fix their code, without immediately breaking code.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15405 and
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 show there was
no discussion on deprecation, despite authors knowing that
there is code in the wild using this.
It does not affect me, but in light in recent discussions, it
again gives a bad picture of D and maintainability of code
developed in D.
You’re correct about the deprecation cycle being wrong, but
please remember that “enum” on a function is just a more
confusing way of writing “auto”. Anyone using it *probably didn’t
understand* what it did—nothing much.
