yank unary '+'?

KennyTM~ kennytm at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 06:05:58 PST 2009


On Dec 8, 09 19:11, retard wrote:
> 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.

All C users should switch to D when D can be used without the GC with 
little effort.



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