https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2021
--- Comment #8 from Bill Baxter <[email protected]> --- Ah, this reminds me of the old days when I was working in D every day and spending far too much time arguing about D issues. I think this comment thread sums up pretty well my ambiguous relationship with D. So wonderful in so many ways, but it always felt like I had a fundamentally different notion about what it meant for software to be beautiful than Walter did. I think what I want above all is simplicity, order, and logical, consistent design. To me that makes a language beautiful (with performance of course). What Walter seems to want above all is something that gets the job done easily, without too much complexity. It seems to be a much more pragmatic take than mine. To me a silly inconsistency like this sticks out like a big scratch on a beautiful Ferrari. Just take it to the shop and fix it already! __traits is another example. For such a core feature, it deserves a non-ugly name. And then there's "is" which has a nice clean name, but whose usage syntax is totally wacky. I have no idea what "is ( Type Identifier : TypeSpecialization , TemplateParameterList )" means. Example from the http://dlang.org/expression.html: "static if (is(Tup : TX!TL, alias TX, TL...))" it starts to look a little like Perl, really. --
