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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

bearophile wrote:
> Paul D. Anderson:
>> 1. The list of changes is small and shrinking. Only five will make 
>> the cut.
> 
> It's a very small list. So I ask myself why they have chosen some of
> the few things thay have chosen.
> 
> One of those five precios things is the "Elvis" operator: Exp1 ?:
> Exp2
> 
> That means: If Exp1 is non-null, use that, otherwise evaluate and use
> Exp2
> 
> Adding it to D looks easy, but is such operator so important to be in
> the list of the only 5 things to add? I don't currently feel the need
> of it.

I agree. D has it already by the way:

Exp1 && Exp2;

>> 2. Many of the requested syntax changes already exist in D. (Of
>> course.)<
> 
> Some people have asked for invokedynamic, that is already present in
> C#4 in a different form. We'll not see that soon in D.

What is invokedynamic?



Andrei