On 2012-04-28 21:22, q66 wrote:
On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this question. The
idea was which features in D are redundant and/or do not add
significant value?
A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat, cdouble
and creal types.
What's your list?
- AAs integrated in the language; you barely ever use AA literals and
having them purely in Phobos would help get rid of the runtime fat, as
well as better implementations
- 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
- Versions - not redundant, but needs a better system (with AND/OR,
possibility of de-versioning, the assignment op to set versions is kinda
bad)
I think I would find some more, but these are the ones I can recall now.
As others have said, I think this is crazy.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
