On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 18:08:01 UTC, evansl wrote:
On 03/22/14 11:14, Brian Rogoff wrote:
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C++ has a much nastier syntax than D (IMO of course :-) but
the SPECS
proposal for a resyntaxed C++ never caught on.
Brian, could you provide a link for this proposal?
I'd appreciate it.
-regards,
Larry
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html
I think there is an expanded version of this report too, but this
gives you the flavor. Note that it is based on a fairly old
version of C++. I prefer the D !() for templates to their <[]>,
but I prefer their declaration and pointer syntax.
I don't think D's current syntax is really a problem. Well, there
are some things that vex me a bit, like the multiple "alias this"
and also the "is" syntax. Even though I prefer indentation
sensitive syntax to C style syntax, if there were a front end for
D that used an alternative syntax I would not use it. I suspect
that I'm hardly unique in that either.
