Greetings!

One of the switches of the dmd compiler is:

-d             allow deprecated features

I just downloaded 116 (very nice, by the way) and I saw that switch there.  I asked myself, "Jose, what is depracated and what is not?"  I searched a few sites, but right now I am a little PRESSED for time and so I ask, how would a d programmer know what is deprecated and what is not?  Right now, v.116 has $ as the length and soon (if all goes well) length will be depracated.  Many of my programs have length already.  But, that's not a problem, vi is a good editor and I can change that stuff in matter of seconds.  But, nonetheless, what is deprecated and what is not?

thanks,

josé

"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d0l5st$db8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> Greetings!
>
> One of the switches of the dmd compiler is:
>
> -d             allow deprecated features
>
> I just downloaded 116 (very nice, by the way) and I saw that switch there.
> I
> asked myself, "Jose, what is depracated and what is not?"  I searched a
> few
> sites, but right now I am a little PRESSED for time and so I ask, how
> would a d
> programmer know what is deprecated and what is not?

That would be a nice section of the doc, but I don't know of any way get a list of deprecated features.

-Ben

>> One of the switches of the dmd compiler is:
>>
>> -d             allow deprecated features
>>
>> I just downloaded 116 (very nice, by the way) and I saw that switch
>> there. I
>> asked myself, "Jose, what is depracated and what is not?"  I searched
>> a few
>> sites, but right now I am a little PRESSED for time and so I ask, how
>> would a d
>> programmer know what is deprecated and what is not?
>
> That would be a nice section of the doc, but I don't know of any way get a list of deprecated features.

It'd be even better if the compiler would have a verbose "?" mode, and spat out a list. Like Borland's "-h -" mode

"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d0l5st$db8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> Greetings!
>
> One of the switches of the dmd compiler is:
>
> -d             allow deprecated features
>
> I just downloaded 116 (very nice, by the way) and I saw that switch there.
> I
> asked myself, "Jose, what is depracated and what is not?"  I searched a
> few
> sites, but right now I am a little PRESSED for time and so I ask, how
> would a d
> programmer know what is deprecated and what is not?  Right now, v.116 has
> $ as
> the length and soon (if all goes well) length will be depracated.  Many of
> my
> programs have length already.  But, that's not a problem, vi is a good
> editor
> and I can change that stuff in matter of seconds.  But, nonetheless, what
> is
> deprecated and what is not?
>
> thanks,
>
> josé
>

If you try to do something, and the compler complains that it's depricated and refuses to compile, then it is depricated ;) . But if you're trying to get a complete list of depricated features, then I guess that doesn't help...

"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d0l5st$db8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>  But, nonetheless, what is
> deprecated and what is not?

The easiest way at the moment is to grep the provided dmd sources for "deprecated".

> But, nonetheless, what is
> deprecated and what is not?

It will also allow you to do C-style casts, i.e. (float)a as opposed to cast(float)a.