Beta 2.079.0

[Martin Nowak]

On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 00:41:58 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
wrote:
> On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 00:05:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Isn't that an argument?

Of course it is :).
I tried to list the arguments I found in the thread and replied 
to them, trying to lead a proper discussion.

>> - why not X instead
>
> Aren't alternative ideas welcome?

Yes they are. There was quite some chances to bring them up, 
maybe this needs more room for comments.

>>   Go for it and try to find a consensus. I don't think the 
>> issue is big enough to warrant a huge design and bikeshedding 
>> discussion.
> Some don't agree with you.

The price of discussing syntax, introducing an alternative (e.g. 
`import std.algorithm : { find, findSplit }`, and rewriting most 
D code is quite high.

> That's your opinion.

Yes, and it's an opinion that isn't reflected in the thread.

> You seem overly eager to save some typing, and the expense of 
> comprehension.
> I don't get it. That's what bring programming languages into 
> disrepute.

Reread what I wrote, you'll find that I make a distinction 
between scripting/hacking and programming.

> This doesn't seem that trivial based on the discussion.

It said seemed, so it might have been a wrong assessment.
But I still think we have quite heavy topics on our plate, @nogc, 
@safe, phobos quality, dub infrastructure and this still seems 
like a very tiny change to me.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality, because 
this is certainly easier to grasp than 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1282 
(https://forum.dlang.org/post/mjsma6$196h$1@digitalmars.com) for 
which getting feedback is extremely tedious.

> I've learnt a lot from looking at imports used.

Interesting, you have a good example?