Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Derek Parnell wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:42:55 -0500, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
Then, as Andrei suggested, we need a more flexible and fine-grained
reflection mechanism. :)
Agreed, but are you also suggesting that a simple __FUNCTION__ should
also
exist?
By the way, my fear for D is that it is turning into an ASCII version of
APL.
I don't know much about APL, what was wrong with it?
Plenty.
It was a write-only language, on a par with brainf**ck.
I've known guru-level apl programmers who regularly couldn't read their
own code the next week.
It's probably the most concise way of writing heavy and ultra efficient
data manipulation code.
It's a bit like spending a week writing an 80-character hairy regexp,
and later trying to figure out how the heck it actually works.
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But I think some of us should stick with D1.
