D - more or less power than C++?

[Johan Granberg]

Johan Granberg wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> "Miles" <_______ at _______.____> wrote in message 
>> news:dub8id$2rn3$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> I hardly post anything to the NG, most of the time I just read to see
>>> how D is maturing... but I would like to leave my opinion on this 
>>> subject:
>>
>> It's good to hear the opinions now and then of the lurkers, too, as 
>> they are just as important as the prolific posters.
> 
> In that case here is another lurker opinion.
> 
>>> 1. const parameters and member functions
>>>
>>> Countless times this saved me. I just can't imagine references being
>>> passed in and out of functions without something explicitly saying that
>>> the function is expected or not to modify it.
> 
> You did not answer the above statement and i have seen this repeated all 
> over this thread along with destructors in structs. I will not repeat 
> all the arguments but to me this is important issues.
> If i should rank the most showstoping things in D (from my perspective) 
> it would be
> 1. bugs
> 2. as far as I know no way of inporting somthing in a parent directory 
> (as C++ #include "../myheader.hpp")
> 3. read only sematics that work as a strong reminder that one is not 
> suposed to modify somthing (but can bee subverted by a cast)
> 4. overlodable assignment and copy constructors.
> 5. library and other minor issues
> 
>>> 4. library
>>> ...
>> I don't find the STL compelling, either, and that's the only library 
>> thing standard C++ has over libc. Furthermore, large chunks of STL are 
>> simply irrelevant in D because D has core arrays, strings, and 
>> associative arrays.
> 
> I agree on this one. So wath is your plan for the D standard library?

I remembered another thing that i would like as well. This probably is 
omited by design but I would realy like to write member funktion 
definitions outside of their class. This way i can get the class 
definition down to a single page and that helps when trying to read the 
code later on as you can easily see the properities of a class at a glance.