Things that may be removed

[John Reimer]

Hello Don,

> bearophile wrote:
> 
>> There are some things I'd like to see added to the D language, but
>> what things can be removed from it?
>> 
>> "Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no
>> more can be removed."
>> -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
>> :-)
>> "There should be one-- and preferably only one --*obvious* way to do
>> it." -- Python Zen, emphasis added by me :-)
>> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 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.
> * Object.toString(). Encourages bad design. It's not powerful enough
> to
> be useful.


Can I add foreach_reverse? :)

-JJR