removal of cruft from D
Ellery Newcomer
ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu
Fri Nov 20 12:56:27 PST 2009
Yigal Chripun wrote:
> Based on recent discussions on the NG a few features were
> deprecated/removed from D, such as typedef and C style struct initializers.
>
> IMO this cleanup and polish is important and all successful languages do
> such cleanup for major releases (Python and Ruby come to mind). I'm glad
> to see that D follows in those footsteps instead of accumulating craft
> like C++ does.
>
>
> As part of this trend of cleaning up D before the release of D2, what
> other features/craft should be removed/deprecated?
>
> I suggest reverse_foreach and c style function pointers
>
> please add your candidates for removal.
>
>
s/function pointers/type declarations/
also permitting
int[] a = [1,2,3,];
but not
a = [1,2,3,];
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