Eliminate assert and lazy from D?

[Justin Johansson]

Kagamin Wrote:

> Frank Benoit Wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it is acceptable to remove lazy and write
> > logging statements with delegate and the curly braces.
> > log({ "bla bla "~info });
> 
> I second this :)
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=97504

I third this.

The above article raises a valid observation which needs, uhm well, ..., observing.

Why disguise Smiths with Jones?

Better to work out a briefer syntax for lambda and "half-lambdas".

Now for a way out idea, since D source is cognisant of Unicode, albeit UTF-8, why not make
use of (U+03BB), Greek Small Letter Lambda in the language?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03bb/index.htm  (not the best reference but it will do)

Of course this idea is not original, see following for "prior art"

http://community.schemewiki.org/?syntax-unicode-lambda

Bests to all,

Justin Johansson