Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
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,
C declaration syntax is on the chopping block. Walter hasn't actually
removed any features yet from DMD releases.
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.
Yes, but D is getting *really* big. The language complexity is a
problem. We need to cut out everything we can possibly can. Unary + is a
nice example of something that is almost completely useless.
