On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 23:50:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
There are orders of magnitudes of difference between providing
a new
abstraction like a class and simply rewriting
auto i = foo;
as
i := foo;
_All_ it does is save you 4 characters and shift where in the
statement the
piece is that tells the compiler to infer the type.
- Jonathan M Davis
+1
I really hope such stuff will _never ever_ get into official D
spec. It is just going to be a disaster for language that aims to
be general-purpose and doesn't want to die because of minor
detail overload complexity, like C++ did.
That syntax obession makes me afraid. Shorter lambdas had at
least some rationale.
