Guillaume Chatelet:
A minimalistic website maintains the concepts defined so far
and the C++ code
http://www.elementsofprogramming.com/
That page looks quite interesting. I'll take a better look later
(I have not read that book).
In a recent (probably no more than one year old) talk by Bjarne
Stroustrup, he has shown a list of concepts that fits mostly in
one slide. So he has significantly reduced the number of Concepts
needed for the STL.
Now on the downside, D being a C-style-system-language, we
won't be able to prevent implicit lossy conversions
D disallows some implicit conversions (float => int, int =>
short, etc).
The conversions like uint=>int and int=>uint are an open problem,
waiting for some solution (a simple "solution" is to add a
warning, as in GCC. It's not a great solution, but maybe it's
better than the current D situation).
or add value domain constrains as
in the X10 language for instance.
Please explain, don't assume all people here know X10.
Bye,
bearophile
