The Many Faces of D - slides

[BCS]

Hello bearophile,

> Russel Winder:
> 
>> I continue to be intrigued by people who believe that code, unlike
>> text, is more readable in a monospace font.  Personally I think
>> monospace fonts make code unreadable,<
>> 
> I guess it's a matter of personal preferences. But non-proportional
> fonts have two advantages:
> - it's easy to count spaces, vertical alignments and so on;

Bingo. While it might be possible to make a single line of code in proportional 
font as readable as in mon-space, as soon as you have more than one line 
you can't make things line up, and I want that way to often to give it up.

> def sumOfSquares (sequence):
> return sum(item * item for item in sequence)
> I have suggested few times a list/lazy comp syntax for D too, and I
> have tried to explain why it's a good thing (it helps "chunking" in
> the mind of the programmer).

I believe that you can do it via map/reduce.

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