Revised RFC on range design for D2 (lazy)

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Oct 3 07:15:59 PDT 2008


Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Hold it right there! Are you saying that the existence of 'lazy' somehow 
> required, or helped justify the existence of the omittable parenthesis 
> functionality? How is that?
> I think you are accusing innocents ('lazy') or wrongdoing. 'lazy' has 
> nothing to do with the omittable parenthesis functionality, I think they 
> are completely orthogonal. Prove me wrong otherwise.

The connection is indirect. Lazy showed that omitting trailing parens 
after delegate names is not recommended. If trailing parens after 
delegate names were required, much of the ambiguity mentioned by Sergey 
would disappear.

Andrei


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