On 10/4/10 10:06 CDT, Marianne Gagnon wrote:
Hi,
The C syntax is unspeakably ridiculous, useless, and downright
dangerous. It shouldn't compile.
In the past, Walter has mentioned a weak argument for retaining C-style
array declaration syntax, although I personally find it very
unconvincing. But C's hideous function pointer syntax is on a whole
other level. It's really hurting us. I believe it should be deprecated
immediately. But the 'function type' syntax shouldn't be allowed even as
a deprecated syntax. It's horrible.
Patch included in Bug 4987.
I don't have much weight, but... seconded, definitely :) D needs to be as clean
as possible, bad C syntax needs to go.
-- Auria
Don's post was quoted on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dm8n8/the_many_faces_of_d_slides_pdf/
Andrei
