Verbosity in D

Emanuele Torre torreemanuele6 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 23:53:36 UTC 2022


On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 16:01:08 UTC, pascal111 wrote:
> It's clear by working with D that it has the same bad point 
> like Pascal language; the "verbosity". Is there any plans in 
> future to make some shorthanded techniques that clean verbosity 
> from D?
>
> Quote: "In terms of functionality, Pascal is pretty much 
> exactly the same as C, except with some sanity-conserving 
> restrictions on one hand, and more verbose syntax on the other. 
> It was an okay language for the time when it was popular, and I 
> would give it kudos just for having the common sense to make 
> the assignment operator := instead of =, and not allowing it to 
> be chained, but verbosity back then was still something to be 
> avoided if possible, so C was naturally seen as superior."
>
> https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-value-learning-Pascal-now-Are-there-actually-any-parts-where-Pascal-is-better-than-C-Is-this-language-worth-investing-time-into-What-would-the-added-value-be-if-I-learn-it

Regaring this, I don't understand what you mean either.
How is D unnecesarily verbose?
Do you have any specific example?


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