"Rainer Deyke" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> bool empty { ... } >>> void empty=(bool b) { ... } >> >> I think that if D starts to make a habit of aping the ugly C++ approach >> to >> adding new features (as this does), then we may as well just use C++. > > 'prop=' for property setters is used by Io, not C++. D already much > closer to C++ than Io. (BTW, Io doesn't have operators in the same > sense that C++ and D do. '+' and 'prop=' are just identifiers in Io.) >
What I meant was that, just as when C++ adds a feature, it's the quickest easiest kludge around that satisfies some of the technical requirements without regard to how much of a butt-ugly hack it is.
