Hmm - about manifest/enum

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 1 22:17:27 PST 2008


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> It is hard to try to be involved (in any capacity) with D language evolution
> when there are silent (or rather non-public) opinions that weighs more than
> this newsgroup, and I think as people on the newsgroup figures this out, it
> will be a loss for D.

It is not that various opinions weigh more. It is more trying to pick 
the best possible course of action. Note that I do my best to argue the 
cases based on their merits, not based on votes. Consider that after the 
feedback in this group, the first two const regimes were scrapped. You 
guys made a convincing argument that it was confusing, overly complex, 
and basically sucked.

> In earlier situations that are similar to this one, it has always looked
> like the unvocal persons are C++-users, thus we end up in a very C++
> inspired language when that often is definately not what we want.

const in D is very unlike const in C++.

> Most C++-users I know refuse to even acknowledge that C++ is bad.

Interestingly, many C++ users I know will not publicly acknowledge the 
flaws in C++. Off the record, though, they say very different things. 
People do not want to damage their careers built up around C++. There 
are some pretty high level C++ experts who have been privately very 
helpful to me in explaining how to do things right.



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