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digitalmars.D.announce - Binary Literals Not Going Anywhere

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of 
binary 
literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjkzdk forum.dlang.org).

A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation for 
our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him about the 
binary literal situation. He confirmed that they will not be 
deprecated. If you're using them today, you can keep using them 
tomorrow.
Sep 25 2022
next sibling parent reply Markus <m ark.us.tld> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of 
 binary 
 literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjkzdk forum.dlang.org).

 A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation 
 for our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him 
 about the binary literal situation. He confirmed that they will 
 not be deprecated. If you're using them today, you can keep 
 using them tomorrow.


An approved DIP would have been a prerequisite to their 
deprecation regardless, correct?
Sep 25 2022
parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 05:58:48 UTC, Markus wrote:


 An approved DIP would have been a prerequisite to their 
 deprecation regardless, correct?


No.
Sep 26 2022
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Max Samukha <maxsamukha gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of 
 binary 
 literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjkzdk forum.dlang.org).

 A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation 
 for our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him 
 about the binary literal situation. He confirmed that they will 
 not be deprecated. If you're using them today, you can keep 
 using them tomorrow.


Please do not take the backlash against the removal of binary 
literals as general aversion to breaking changes/deprecations. D 
has plenty to remove/deprecate (and it is NOT `alias this`, 
unless that is replaced with a more general mechanism, such as 
`using` in Jai).
Sep 25 2022
next sibling parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 06:19:05 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:


 Please do not take the backlash against the removal of binary 
 literals as general aversion to breaking changes/deprecations. 
 D has plenty to remove/deprecate


I'm sure Walter didn't take it that way.
Sep 26 2022
prev sibling parent TheGag96 <thegag96 gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 06:19:05 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:

 Please do not take the backlash against the removal of binary 
 literals as general aversion to breaking changes/deprecations. 
 D has plenty to remove/deprecate (and it is NOT `alias this`, 
 unless that is replaced with a more general mechanism, such as 
 `using` in Jai).


+1 on Jai's `using` feature! `alias this` should definitely be 
more appreciated.
Sep 27 2022
prev sibling next sibling parent Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of 
 binary 
 literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjkzdk forum.dlang.org).

 A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation 
 for our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him 
 about the binary literal situation. He confirmed that they will 
 not be deprecated. If you're using them today, you can keep 
 using them tomorrow.


👍
Sep 26 2022
prev sibling next sibling parent IGotD- <nise nise.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of 
 binary 
 literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjkzdk forum.dlang.org).

 A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation 
 for our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him 
 about the binary literal situation. He confirmed that they will 
 not be deprecated. If you're using them today, you can keep 
 using them tomorrow.


That's good to hear as depreciating binary literals wouldn't make 
any sense. I first assumed that people made too much of the 
comment as sometimes you just say something like a speculative 
comment without too much meaning or afterthought. Then Walter got 
into the discussion at forum not really retracting what he said 
so that left many people wondering.
Sep 26 2022
prev sibling next sibling parent Elias <desisma heidel.beer> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Before we got started, I asked him about the binary literal 
 situation. He confirmed that they will not be deprecated. If 
 you're using them today, you can keep using them tomorrow.


neat!
Sep 26 2022
prev sibling parent Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 He confirmed that they will not be deprecated.
 If you're using them today, you can keep using them tomorrow.


Great!
Sep 27 2022