On Monday, 5 November 2012 at 17:54:32 UTC, Namespace wrote:
I am considering to rewrite Remus from the ground up.
Because I hope that Remus earn next time more interest, I would
like to vote or discuss the features.
As there would be:
- Not null references. Example: Foo& f / int& i. Maybe only
for Objects?
- not null safe invocation. Example:
some_obj?.do_something();
- Elvis operator. Example: Foo result = foo ?: new Foo();
- Stack instances with own keyword? For example, with
'local' as it is now.
- Package import? Example: import package std: stdio, array,
regex;
- Namespaces?
What is preferred by this list / what not? What should be
included in any case in Remus / what not?
I'm learning the D language right now, and I can not say that
I've missed any of these things. They may offer some 'syntactic
sugar', but the D is very expressive anyway. Ex: for safe
invocation I would use an assert/enforce anyway if there is a
chance the object is null. The 'import package' whould be usefull
though...
