Things that may be removed

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> That is an excellent question.
> Some items in my list are controversial, the first two have already been
> mentioned.
>
> * C-style declarations
> * SFINAE
> * \n, \r as a string (free up the backslash character)
> * #line (make it a pragma instead)
> * Octal (it's not 1952 any more)
> * the comma operator (allow in selected places, eg for(; ;++a, ++b)).
> * package. In DMD, it's a broken implementation of a broken concept.
> * The postincrement and postdecrement operators (make x++, x-- identical to
> ++x, --x, except that it is illegal to use the return value. Allowing
> operator overloading of the postfix operators was a silly hack in C++. It's
> a freedom nobody wants).
> * is() expressions (I love what you can do with it, but it's unintuitive,
> and traits is a much better solution)
> * .sort for AAs.

I suppose you mean for normal arrays.  How about reverse as well?

> * Object.toString(). Encourages bad design. It's not powerful enough to be
> useful.

I agree with absolutely everything you've listed here.