Steve Yegge's rant on The Next Big Language

[BCS]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 
> 
> Except for the typing system (though it could certainly get there), the 
> absolute lack of tools, and missing about half of the Kitchen Sink points ;) 

Half?, more like one or two hard misses and a few more close calls.

I can kill one close calls:

 >4 Destructuring bind (e.g. x, y = returnTwoValues())

If I'm reading it right this does that, and nicely:

struct SetT(V...)
{
   V args_m;
   static SetT go(inout V args)
   {
     SetT ret;
     foreach (i, arg; args) ret.args_m[i] = arg;
     return ret;
   }
   void opCall(inout V args)
   {
     foreach (i, arg; args_m) args[i] = arg;
   }
}

SetT!(int,int) bar(int i, int j)
{
   return SetT!(int,int).go(i,j);
}

void main()
{
	int i=1,j=2,k=0,l=0;

	bar(i,j)(k,l);

	writef("[k,l]=[%d,%d]\n", k,l);
}