"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon May 18 16:02:56 PDT 2009


Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jason House
> <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's all a matter of perspective. I see both as begin .. end. That may be the same reason why I think addition when I see foo(bar()) + baz(37). The extra cruft is more or less ignored when figuring out the basics of what is going on.
> 
> Agreed.  If you tell someone   a .. b  means a non-inclusive range
> from a to b, then ask them to guess what    blarf a .. blarf b  means,
> I would be very surprised if many guessed "inclusive range from blarf
> a  to blarf b".

But it's not "blarf". It's "case". I am floored that nobody sees the 
elegance of that syntax.

Andrei



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