The current status of D?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/04/2011 03:10 AM, Don wrote:
> On 04.12.2011 00:13, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 12/04/2011 12:09 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>>> Famous last words:
>>>
>>> On 12/3/11 11:47 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>> There is nothing wrong with is(XXX), […]
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> An explanation would be more helpful.
>
> For many years is(xxx) been reviled as the ugliest thing in the
> language. The simple forms are OK, but features kept getting piled onto
> it until it became clearly unworkable.

So why not keep the simple forms and just replace the more obscure 
functionality that is better expressed by other means?

Removing is expressions entirely would break most D code (at least it 
would break all of mine).

>
> And there are stupidities like:
>
> alias void delegate () dg;
> alias void function () fn;
> static assert(is (dg == delegate)); // true
> static assert(is (fn == function)); // fails!

I'd like to just see that fixed, but then old code would be silently 
miscompiled...