Three Cool Things about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/26/15 12:29 AM, Joakim wrote:
>
> 1. Saying "Anywho" to segue to a new topic seems to be a verbal tic of
> Andrei's now.
>
> 2. It's claimed that scoped imports sped up D compilation: has this been
> measured?  It would help if measurements were cited, as done for
> compile-time regex performance at the end.
>
> 3. It's better that you show usage examples of a PEGGED grammar now, as
> opposed to a previous talk that ended with the mixin slide, but I think
> it'd be best if you actually worked a toy example out and showed the
> generated D code, to really drive the point home.  Even better if it
> wasn't something you could trivially write in D itself, like the
> arithmetic example you gave.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep it in mind. -- Andrei