digitalmars.D - An unknown deprecated feature
- Bruno Medeiros <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> Nov 09 2005
- "John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> Nov 09 2005
- "Garett Bass" <garettbass studiotekne.com> Nov 09 2005
- Hasan Aljudy <hasan.aljudy gmail.com> Nov 09 2005
I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of
code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after
reducing it to the simplest form of code:
class Bar(TYPE)
{
Bar!(TYPE) instance;
}
and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing
the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold,
"instance" is a deprecated keyword:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html
( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' )
Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?
--
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
"Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to
be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
"John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> "Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message news:dkt3g1$15jp$1 digitaldaemon.com...I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after reducing it to the simplest form of code: class Bar(TYPE) { Bar!(TYPE) instance; } and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold, "instance" is a deprecated keyword: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' ) Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no?
Can we have a show of hands for how many still use "instance" to instantiate a template? It's my guess that only ancient legacy code will use it. And it's good, honest variable name that should probably be free'd up.-- Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
I would also like to see this identifier freed up since it is my favorite name for a singleton instance. ;) Garett "Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message news:dkt3g1$15jp$1 digitaldaemon.com...I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after reducing it to the simplest form of code: class Bar(TYPE) { Bar!(TYPE) instance; } and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold, "instance" is a deprecated keyword: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' ) Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no? -- Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005
Amen! It's my favourite name for singleton instance too! Garett Bass wrote:I would also like to see this identifier freed up since it is my favorite name for a singleton instance. ;) Garett "Bruno Medeiros" <daiphoenixNO SPAMlycos.com> wrote in message news:dkt3g1$15jp$1 digitaldaemon.com...I just spent half an hour trying to figure out why a certain piece of code wouldn't compile. Puzzled by a cryptic error message, and after reducing it to the simplest form of code: class Bar(TYPE) { Bar!(TYPE) instance; } and still without it compiling, surprised was I when just by changing the field name it compiled. I searched the doc, and yo and behold, "instance" is a deprecated keyword: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/473.html ( which I naturally had never heard about... O_o' ) Maybe it's time we kill some of these older deprecated features, no? -- Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student "Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural."
Nov 09 2005