A summary of D's design principles

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:58:49 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> A coworker asked me where he could find a brief document of D's design
> principles. This was after I'd mentioned the "no function hijacking"
> stance.
> 
> I think it would be a great idea if the up-and-coming
> www.d-programming-language.org contained such a document.
> 
> Ideas for what it could contain? I know we discussed this once in the
> past, but couldn't find the discussion.
> 
> 
> Andrei

One of the big ones would be that the safe way is the default but that the 
unsafe way is still possible if you need it (a prime example being default 
initialization vs initializing with void).

- Jonathan M Davis