D - more or less power than C++?

[Walter Bright]

"Kevin Bealer" <Kevin_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> Sometimes its good to be able to get the least element, greatest element, 
> and so
> on, quicker than O(N).  PQs can do one or the other, but it's hard to do 
> lookups
> by value.  This is a low priority for most people I suspect.

Sometimes, yes. D's AA implementation, however, will work satisfactorilly 
for 98% of the cases. There's always some case that needs a special setup, 
and for that, one will need to use a custom user defined type. That's true 
of the STL as well.