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		WalterBright on June 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of so... > You can create the new functions and mark the current one as deprecated, either by documentation or by some code feature. Another D feature that is so simple in concept but miraculous in its effects - a "deprecated" attribute that can be applied to declarations. It enables plenty of warning given to users before it is removed.

astrange on June 19, 2019 [–]

Well sure, but GCC and co have that too.

It's a pretty good counter to people who think you should always use -Werror. One wrong deprecation could take you a month to fix!

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