Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> > What will removing it gain you?
> 
> Sancta simplicitas.

Hm.. I don't really buy that argument.

I see you and Walter removing/witholding things (incomparability operators, 
logical operator overloading) from the language, because: "I can't imagine a 
use for it and removing it makes the language simpler."

Meanwhile, you're keeping C syntax for function-pointers around, and I'm 
missing syntactic sugar for my tribool.

The fact that you or I think there isn't a use for a feature, doesn't mean 
there isn't one. Programmers keep finding new and unintended uses for language 
features, which is a good thing. And if you want to simplify the language, I 
wouldn't start with the unary + when you've still got all that C stuff around.

-- 
Michiel Helvensteijn

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