Super-dee-duper D features

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote
> 
> <citing>
>> "One of the things we should demand from a
>> powerful programming language is the ability to build abstractions
>> by assigning names to common patterns and then to work in terms of
>> the abstractions directly." 
> </citing>
> 
> Isn't there a contradiction, when one requires to use new abstractions 
> but forbids reinterpretations of older ones?

It's not new vs. old nor about reinterpretation. It's higher-level vs. 
lower-level.

Andrei