Arrays

[Edward Diener]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 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++?

You can answer that question within any context without having to skew 
your argument against C++, and if the answer is that their is no 
advantage in using D over C++ it does not negate the areas where there 
may be advantages.