Steve Yegge's rant on The Next Big Language

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

BCS wrote:
> To pick at a few:
> Does any language do interators for user type as language features? You 
> have to write them your self in every language I know of. In D, all the 
> types you can get without a lib can be iterated over without a lib.

In C# you have a yield keyword that creates an Enumerable class for you:

class List {
	IEnumerator getEnumerator() {
		for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
			yield return InnerList[i];
	}
}


> And I'll admit that the mult return is a bit of a stretch.

Actually, tuples are one of my favorite language features on both Python 
and Erlang.


> But *I* don't care if things come from a lib or from a feature, just how 
> well they get the job done. And I would never use a language that 
> doesn't need libs. It would be WAY to big.

Agree

> But that's all just my opinion. Really my point is that for the most 
> part D, in one form or another, has most of the things mentioned .

Agree, but I think that Steve Yegge was actually referring to a future 
version of ECMAScript.