Super-dee-duper D features

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> Your example shows that you are able to make a list, but it gives zero
>> indication on whether you can express what a list _is_.
> 
> I just don't feel that everything that can be abstracted away, should 
> be. Sometimes a trivial list is just a ->next, and doesn't need any more 
> than that. Sometimes, I just want to do x*x*x rather than abstracting 
> away a cube(T)(T x) function.
> 
> An abstraction becomes useful when it's repeated repeatedly, not when 
> it's used once or twice.

Of course I agree with that, but I also think lists are quite a 
worthy-for-reuse abstraction so it's not inspired to choose it to bash 
needless abstraction.

Here's a more humorous take on the subject:

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html


Andrei