On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:00:06 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 1/24/13 7:36 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
Also non-logical special case rules like this make the language harder
to learn, therefore harder to evangelize.
Definitely. But it shouldn't be forgotten that syntactic warts are also
a liability.
Andrei
I would argue that given how common they already are, cost of the wart is
far smaller than the benefit of not having the unique-to-D special case
that makes the language that much harder to learn.
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Adam Wilson
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