On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 03:52:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/24/13 9:54 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
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.
Again, the question needs asking: is it a given that we need to
allow optional parentheses? Otherwise we'll keep on rehashing
this over and over again.
It is NOT and workaround have been proposed to solve the UFCS ()
invasion case, which is probably the only one that don't boil
down to lazyness when digging a little.
