On 2016-01-01 11:45, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
In D1 Walter made a point about restricting operator overloading to
discourage reuse of operators. In D2 there are many ways to create your
own weird syntax, but Walter is locked on his D1 position, even though
it makes little sense in D2.
This is an overarching theme in D: the design rationale, that goes a
decade back and is based on making a restricted easy to use version of
C++, does not change, even though the context is very different in 2015
and the premises has changed.
These things are unlikely to change without a fork. Which is a pitty as
D needs a more coherent design to get out of stagnation.
The core developers are making a big deal out of being able to have
DSL's as string literals and process them at compile time. Although
that's kind of pointless with SQL, since one still needs to send to
string to the database to perform the query. The only thing that's
possible is to validate the syntax at compile time.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
