Overloads not returning appropriate info. [Field reflunkory]

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Apr 10 10:18:35 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 02:22:35AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 at 21:00:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > (And on a side note: don't even get me started on is(...)
> > expressions.)
> 
> is expressions rock. And I betcha if we did do libraries for them, it
> would eventually go full circle, with someone doing a pattern-matching
> DSL that reinvents the original syntax, just much slower to compile :P

The functionality rocks, but the syntax is a horrendous hairball of
inconsistencies and design-by-chance.


T

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