On 2/5/12 10:25 AM, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/5/12 9:57 AM, Jose Armando Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Timon Gehr<[email protected]> wrote:
immutable variable = (boolean_condition) ? {
// initialize based on boolean_condition being true
}():{
// initialize based on boolean_condition being false
}();
Cool, now I want some syntactic sugar ;). I write this all the time!
Make it a function.
I agree that in theory that you can do all this stuff in D but the
reality is that developers are lazy and end up fighting the language.
It is probably true that in a well structure/abstracted program this
is not a problem but the reality is that a lot programs don't start
this way.
I agree with the general argument but I find it disconnected from the
case in point. It's not "all this stuff", it's one little local thing,
and I'd find it tenuous to claim that such a small difference in syntax
actually matters for anything.
I listen a very enlightening talk by Gilad Bracha the other
day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IavVtOE_Fg. I still not ready to
completely agree with him but I do see his point about a language
getting out a programers way...
I'll watch this, thanks.
Andrei
