too much sugar not good for the health

[Alexander Panek]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Reading through "D Specification", I'm a bit surprised.  I believe the goal
> of D is to be a clean, improved C++.  Yet, there are a number of instances
> where syntactic 'sugar' is added in ways that seem almost arbitrary.  The
> latest example I found is 'Functions as Array Properties'.  I'm not sure
> what overwhelming need this syntax fulfills, maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> There is a lot of extra conceptual overhead in adding extra syntax.  One
> might argue that "You don't have use it if you don't like it.".  That is,
> unfortunately, not really true.  If other's use it and I have to grok there
> code, I need to understand the extra rules.
> 
> I've been following D with great interest.  I hope the language will not add
> such 'features' without great need - it really detracts from the purity and
> simplicity.

You have a point, though the beauty & readability of D pretty much 
nullifies that. The syntax sugar that is added so far does not actually 
complicate the parsing so much, so D's syntax can still be seen as 
clean, IMHO.