Arrays

[Walter Bright]

Edward Diener wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>> But still, shouldn't we drop the "but C++ doesn't do it either" stuff?
>>
>> I use it when I hear things like "this is unusable" and "so I'll use 
>> C++ instead" <g>.
>>
>> Otherwise, I agree that we should be working towards making D as good 
>> as possible regardless of the failings of other languages.
> 
> I would also like to support the idea that denigrating C++, unfairly and 
> with an obvious bias, is not the way to promote your ideas in D in any 
> way and will just lose for D the interest of intelligent people who 
> would otherwise be interested in at least trying it out and contributing 
> to ideas of what it might be.

Yet at some point one does have to answer the question why one should 
bother with D when there's C++?