removal of cruft from D

[Ellery Newcomer]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Yigal Chripun" <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:he6sqe$1dqu$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 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/reverse_foreach/foreach_reverse/ ;)
> 
> 1. Floating point literals without digits on *both* sides!!! "1.", ".1" --> 
> Useless hindrance to future language expansion!
> 
> 2. Octal literals! I think it'd be great to have a new octal syntax, or even 
> better, a general any-positive-inter-base syntax. But until that finally 
> happens, I don't want "010 == 8" preserved. And I don't think the ability to 
> have an octal literal is important enough that lacking it for a while is a 
> problem. And if porting-from-C really has to be an issue, then just make 
> 0[0-9_]+ an error for a transitionary period (or forever - it'd at least be 
> better than maintaining "010 == 8").
> 
> 3. Also the comma operator, but that's already been recently discussed.
> 
> 
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