DMD 0.148 - regular expressions

[Kyle Furlong]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
>> In article <dts7qi$18b0$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Ivan Senji says...
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The match expressions are gone. Based on the feedback, people didn't
>>>>> want D to adopt perl'ish notation or implicitly defined variables.
>>>>> Instead, foreach statements now allow implicit typing of the key/value
>>>>> declarations, and the if statement now can declare a variable for the
>>>>> result (an adaptation of Ben Hinkle's idea).
>>>>
>>>> I liked the idea (match expressions), just not the operator, and I
>>>> thought that was a common opinion...
>>> Me too (except I even liked the operator) :)
>> There was a common opinion but on the opposed. I felt the same as Walter
>> about match expressions in the NG.
>>
>> My own thought about match expressions is that they introduce TOO MUCH lib
>> functionality (common only for certain types of apps), making D *very*
>> overloaded (think about future writers of the compiler). The most of the
>> people felt that introducing match expressions really introduces NO NEW
>> functionality. Rather it just saves you the time of writing "import
>> std.regexp;" (i guess). And also they introduced more complexity than
>> needed and new bugs to fix. Match expressions was a luxury that D couldn't
>> afford as D has many other *really-prior-and-crucial* things to work out
>> if it want's to become 1.0.
>>
>> JMHO
>>
>>
>> Tom;
> 
> I think the "common opinion" was too coloured by the fact that we didn't
> really expect it to go away (but maybe change), thus many of those having
> positive feelings toward the match expressions didn't voice their opinion
> at all (at least I didn't). But I guess a vote would give a 50/50 result :)

IMHO, match expressions are not a natural part of a language that claims to be for systems programming.