A summary of D's design principles

[Simen kjaeraas]

bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> Simen kjaeraas:
>
>> Mind giving examples to this one? I thought this was a big no-no.
>
> There are few silent differences, among them there are:
> - usage of global floating point variables/arrays that in some C  
> programs are used without initialization, assuming they are set to zero.
>
> - fixed-sized arrays passed around by reference in C and by value in D2.

By Golly¹, you're right!

Those certainly are worth mentioning, at least the latter. The former
could be seen as bad style, but certainly something someone would do.


¹) I mostly just wanted an excuse to say 'By Golly')
-- 
Simen