On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 07:14:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-02-04 16:08, deadalnix wrote:
OK, I missed that (I have to say I don't really know that
language and
went over it quite quickly). The point that was important to
me is that
this is not really applicable to D.
I think it's important to the reason why these languages don't
have any problems with optional parentheses and why D do have.
Otherwise I think this whole thread is kind of pointless.
Yes, this is why I went quickly over cofeescript : it is clearly
not at all the same thin as D.
Now I think the most relevant one is scala here.
So in scala, funName is a polysemic expression : it is either the
function or the function's result after evaluation. Scala get
from context which one make sense.
The major difference I see with scala are :
- You have no unary & operator to get address of. Confusion in
that regard is completely avoided.
- You don't have an intermediate with unexplainable type between
a function definition and a function (like in C/C++). D try to
work around that in a poor way. Scala totally remove that concept
from the language, as it is a source of trouble without any
usefulness.
The main question I ask myself is how that behavior would
interact with other D features.
