idiomatic D: what to use instead of pointers in constructing a tree data structure?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 07:13:28PM +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 17:42:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> >Vim supports syntax highlighting.
> >
> >But I don't use it either -- I find it distracts from clarity of
> >thought. I use plain vanilla vim in a text-only terminal.
[...]
> I don't get this, then again I am using syntax highlighting editors
> since MS-DOS IDEs supported it.
[...]

It's just a personal preference. I find that overuse of colors produces
a kaleidoscopic rainbow pattern on the screen which, while pretty,
distracts from the essence of the code itself, which is what I'm
focusing on. It's like a webpage with every other word italicized and/or
bolded -- after a while, your brain just tunes it out and it becomes
just meaningless (and distracting) noise. I much rather learn to parse
the text (resp. code) accurately by eye and let it speak for itself.


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