grauzone wrote:
justme wrote:
grauzone Wrote:
justme wrote:
bearophile Wrote:
C# will probably not follow the route of stagnation of Java for
some more time, thanks to Mono too. I don't like that string
interpolation syntax because it looks unsafe, and that design of
tuples can be improved, but they are listening to programmes (even
if they risk creating a mudball language):
http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/12/Mono-CSharp-Ex
More on those tuples:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Dec-23.html
Eventually it will be quite useful to have some very well designed
multi-return support in D (like those tuples, but better).
Doesn't D2 already have tuples in Phobos. D has the comma operator
which C# doesn't so such syntax is not possible in D, me thinks.
But tuples in D really suck. Compared to other languages, D tuples
feel inflexible, stiff, and complicated.
The burden of proving your claims is still there. Isn't D meritocracy
- nobody listens your opinions unless you post compiler / stdlib
patches. I believe the Phobos tuple classes are sufficient until a
better system arrives in D3 or D4. D2 book is almost finished so you
need to write your patches against D3 now.
My experience with patches is, that they're mostly either ignored or
rejected. I guess the chance of an unrequested patch changing a core
language feature in crucial ways is 200%. Walter doesn't listen to
anyone anyway *g*.
The downsides of D tuples has been often mentioned, e.g. here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=98953
That was incomplete. You have to compare the code examples with the D
version:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=98947
(Sorry, I'm not as eloquent as language_fan to write it up myself, plus
nobody would read it.)
