On Monday, 6 February 2017 at 11:02:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5sda9s/what_rust_can_do_that_other_languages_cant_in_six/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576976
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I don't think anyone argue that D shouldn't have anything
allowing this kind of things. That's a bad strawman.
It's like politician who are like, "you oppose mass surveillance
? Surely you want children to die !".
DIP25 and DIP1000 are addressing a real problem. They do it in a
clumsy way. Specifically, DIP25 do it in a way that actaully was
tried before with type qualifier ( inout ) and, long story short:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected] .
Now you can chose to wage an exhaustion war until everybody who
remains either agrees or don't care to fight anymore. That won't
make it a good idea, but it'll look like one.
