The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 29 16:06:37 PDT 2009


Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> What I cannot for the life of me understand is WHY the double 
> underscores? What's wrong with just "traits"?

Because D needed the feature, and it wasn't clear what a good syntax for 
it would be. So __traits is a "put something out there, make it work, if 
it proves its usefulness and a good syntax for it appears, then that can 
be adopted."



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