Back in the game: Numerics in D

[Robert Jacques]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:04:22 -0500, Norbert Nemec  
<Norbert at nemec-online.de> wrote:
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> Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> I completely agree.  And I really don't think there is a lot more that  
>> needs to be done with the language -- I find D code as easy to read as  
>> Python code, and more elegant.  The performance issue is a matter of  
>> allowing the compilers to mature, which will happen now that D2 is  
>> frozen.
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> True. Since IFTI is implemented, I don't see any major show stoppers. Of  
> course, implementing a template expression numerical library a la  
> Boost++ will be a stress test for D and I expect to find a number of  
> rough edges, but that's actually part of the challenge of this project...

You might want to look at bugs 3474 and 2257, as well as the  
opIndex/opSlice problem. None of these are show-stoppers, but they do  
limit the api design and 2257 can be very exasperating.