On 28-04-2012 22:43, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:47:31AM -0700, 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.
D has typedef?? Wow. And I thought I had a good grasp of D.
It "has" typedef, but it is deprecated.
What's your list?
Comma operator.
+1.
foreach_reverse.
+1.
with statements. They make code hard to read, and besides you can (or
should be able to) alias long expressions into a short identifier for
this purpose anyway.
I don't think I agree entirely here. If you have very long sequences of
statements operating on the same object, with can be very useful. That
said, I recognize that the current implementation of with needs some work.
The great variety of string quoting syntax, while useful, seem to need
some cleanup and unification. Get rid of r"", `` works just fine. (Or
vice versa, but not both.) Delimited strings and token strings may be
possible to be unified, perhaps?
IMHO r"" is better than `` for the simple reason that typing `` is
extremely annoying on non-US keyboards.
It's about time octal literals went the way of the bit bucket.
I think those are already deprecated.
There's probably more, I'll post them as I think of them.
T
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- Alex
