I can't find any reference to it on the website. What exactly is version 1.0? I'm not using tons of advanced features of D and it makes no difference for me.

kenny wrote:

> I can't find any reference to it on the website. What exactly is version 1.0? I'm not using tons of advanced features of D and it makes no difference for me.

Language features added to DMD after release 1.000 will not work when using that switch.

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Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Language features added to DMD after release 1.000 will not work when using
> that switch. 
> 
Except they do work?  This compiles on DMD 1.007 with -v1 (as the only flag) without error:

void main() { mixin(`int foo;`); } //mixin declarations are definitely post-1.0

Tyler Knott wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Language features added to DMD after release 1.000 will not work when using
>> that switch. 
>> 
> Except they do work?  This compiles on DMD 1.007 with -v1 (as the only flag) without error:
> 
> void main() { mixin(`int foo;`); } //mixin declarations are definitely post-1.0

I suppose it's only for features that break backward compatibility.  It enables implicit conversion from objects to void pointers.  That's all I know that it does as of 1.007.

If you need older (pre 'D spec 1') features to work, -d will enable some of them.  Implicit conversion from arrays to pointers comes to mind.

torhu Wrote:

> Tyler Knott wrote:
<snip>
>> Except they do work?  This compiles on DMD 1.007 with -v1 (as the only flag) without error:
>> 
>> void main() { mixin(`int foo;`); } //mixin declarations are definitely post-1.0
> 
> I suppose it's only for features that break backward compatibility.  It enables implicit conversion from objects to void pointers.  That's all I know that it does as of 1.007.
<snip>

Strikes me as a bug.  It would seem to me that the _whole point_ of it is to enable programmers to explicitly target 1.0.  That is, at least in theory, they can release code and make a valid statement that it will work in DMD 1.00, and D 1.0 compilers in general.

Stewart.