On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 14:19:59 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 21:05:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 20:31:50 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
Without alot of usage, it will just be an esoteric construct
that looks confusing to the average developer.
That is correct. After a while it gets tiring to see a
neverending stream of complexity added to the language while
things that would actually help (like IDE support) do not get
any attention. As a general rule, if it's being added to C++,
it's probably a bad idea.
There are two thinks of c++ that I miss a little on D:
- Structured binding
- Uniform initialization
But in general, I agreed with you.
Initialization in D is pretty uniform now though. What corners am
I missing?
It's usually:
<type-or-infer> name = <constructor>(args);
Structured bindings... I think C++ did it badly, actually. They
had the {...} syntax fr object construction that worked
everywhere and using the same for deconstruction would've allowed
for quite natural tuples, which manifest almost as language-level
constructs by then (with the help of 'auto' in template
parameters).
