On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 20:35:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The primary issue I have with iostream is that floating point
formatting gets ugly. The "<<" works out ok for iostream in
practice, mostly because it is not common to do bit-shifts in
combination with IO.
stdout << "double value is: " << i<<1;
Oops.
This happens, and you won't notice until someone complains about
the wrong value in the output.
in D neither ! nor ~ is "reused". They are both unary operators
in C. D only defined new binary operators which use the same
characters, but there is no way to confuse them.
On the other side having two different "piplining" operators "."
and "->" makes refactoring the code an ugly mess: If you decided
to use a reference parameter instead of a pointer you have to
replace all "->" by ".". But oops, there is still a pointer
within the referenced struct? So, don't replace them all, but
carefully revisit them to check where "." is necessary and where
"->".
I always hated that!
