On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 19:32:45 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 16:22:41 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Regarding using the not-operator for non-not-operations:
anything would be better than reusing operators that are
commonly used to affect control-flow. It makes it difficult to
comprehend control flow when you skim code you are not
familiar with. "not" tends to be used for completely changing
the flow of a program so those "!" are attention-seekers when
trying comprehend unfamiliar code.
But still, _what exactly_ should be used instead of the
"not-operator"? "Anything" is too vague and not true. You
probably can't use these: ][+=-_,.|`\/"'><;:}{%^&*
Composite brackets, a-la the SPECS 'C++ Resyntaxed' ** proposal,
would work. <[]>, <[<[]>]> may be a bit heavy but not too bad.
I haven't found the !() syntax for D templates to be a problem
though and prefer it to <> from C++ and Java. If I were searching
for D blemishes, I wouldn't look there first.
-- Brian
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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html
