On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis: > > > Regardless of what language you're > > programming in, it's generally best to program in the typical paradigms > of that > > language. Trying to contort it to act like another language is _not_ > going to > > result in optimal code. > > D supports functional style too now. In Bugzilla I have put most of the > requests I think are useful. So if you have specific comments please add to > those. That's not the point. No matter what styles of programming D supports, it will support them differently from other languages. This is true for pretty much any language, so direct comparisons don't really get you much. I come from the Java world with some Scala experience, and I frequently find myself trying to write code the Java make-everything-an-object way, and I just as frequently find that D can do things much more simply if I blend the OO with imperative code and chuck in a few functional elements where useful. I can appreciate what you're trying to do, but doing a line by line comparison of D and Python and asking for features to make D look more like Python just feels like you're trying to contort D into something it never claimed to be. It's not entirely wrong, but it's not entirely right either.
