On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 05:54:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Am Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:39:49 -0400
schrieb "Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]>:
"q66" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
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> - Phobos is too fat - it needs to shrink to just a few core
> modules, others being distributed via some system like CPAN
> for Perl
> - Properties - they're kinda broken at this point and the
> value is questionable
> - @trusted @system
> - Exception handling - a lot of runtime, questionable value
That's just craziness!
Madness even! AAs are soon mostly in the library and that's a
good trade-off; @trusted @system needs to be there as long as
there is @safe; exception handling - some people rely on it
heavily. See it as the easy way to error out of a function that
doesn't normally return anything and cascade up several calls,
while being able to release resources in each.
I don't know about Phobos. Some batteries included are nice and
help the popularity. When it comes to bindings to third party
products with many alternatives, like databases, I'd say one
should cut it there definitly.
I can agree on the rest.
I don't want AA to be removed from the core language. That would
be a big step backward in my opinion. Core language AAs are
entirely adequate for a lot of applications, and they make for so
much cleaner and easier to read/write code than template notation.
