yank unary '+'?

retard re at tard.com.invalid
Tue Dec 8 03:11:07 PST 2009


Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:08:43 +0900, Mike Parker wrote:

> retard wrote:
>> Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:06:14 -0500, Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
>> 
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>>>
>>>>> What will removing it gain you?
>>>> Sancta simplicitas.
>>> Hm.. I don't really buy that argument.
>>>
>>> I see you and Walter removing/witholding things (incomparability
>>> operators, logical operator overloading) from the language, because:
>>> "I can't imagine a use for it and removing it makes the language
>>> simpler."
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, you're keeping C syntax for function-pointers around, and
>>> I'm missing syntactic sugar for my tribool.
>> 
>> You probably don't want to anger millions of users coming from the C
>> community, do you?
> 
> While we're at it, lets avoid angering the millions of users coming from
> the Java community. And the Python community. And the PHP community. And
> the...

That's just silly. D has its C roots. Python and PHP are rivaling amateur 
languages. A scripting language user wouldn't use D, but all C users 
should switch to D because the execution model is similar and C is 
basically a subset of D.



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