On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 06:05:25 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:30:10 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate...
and we are. see for example bug#14035. "typesystem? lolwut,
never heard
about that thing!" that's why i'd better report bugs directly
to Kenji:
he is a sane person.
D most certainly needs stronger typing, not sure why it tries to
propagate the weak typing of C. I find myself adding extra
template parameters and "explicit" in my C++ code just to get
stronger typing. New AoT languages ought to do better than C++.
What Go really got right was to have untyped literals. If you
combine that with a orthogonal weak-cast operator with pleasant
syntax then you have something.
Strong explicit typing also makes it possible to overload on
return values... Something I really want to see in a C++
replacement language.
