On 1/28/13 8:27 AM, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 13:23:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
As far as I understand this presupposes (a) a fluid style of
programming is associated exclusively with scripting languages, (b)
scripting languages have mutually exclusive benefits with systems
languages. I disagree on both counts, and large parts of D's design
disagree as well.
Andrei
Tiny bit wrong - they are not exactly mutually exclusive. But when
support for fluid style comes in conflict with reasoning about the code,
scripting languages and system ones should make different choices. Those
conflicts does not happen that often though and D is very proof of it,
no doubt.
If we talk about _reasoning_, then properties have already broken that
because a.b may be a function invocation. Probably it's about something
weaker.
Andrei
