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[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Many of these features are new to the entire extended language 
>>> family, or have been implemented in radically different ways than 
>>> previously in the extended language family. Are mixins going to cause 
>>> a problem with lambdas? Is liberal use of slices going to make DBC 
>>> unmaintainable? Who knows! Who's going to find out? The early adopters.
>>
>> On the one hand, that is a valid concern. Many of the bug reports are 
>> coming from unexpected interactions between features. 
> 
> Ouch. But as long as they are fixable, and especially as long as they 
> are not theoretically impossible to fix, I guess we're in business. ;-)

They almost always turn out to be fixable, one way or another.

>> What can be done with the combination of all those capabilities has
>> yet to be fully explored.
> Some template judo we've seen is simply impressive, and if we get more 
> guys like that here who'd become interested in the other aspects, we 
> really might see something interesting.

I'm amazed at what smart people have done with D and C++.

>> But on the other hand, I don't think this is a reason to be hesitant 
>> to use D. If those more unusual combinations cause a problem, just 
>> don't use them that way. It isn't necessary to remove the features 
>> from the language!
> 
> The C++ guys certainly shouldn't complain, they already do it every day.
> 
> And not using the entire feature set in each source file might be a good 
> idea with any language. :-)

It's certainly been a good idea for C++ for decades.