Another Phobos2 test

[Andrew Wiley]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:

> Jonathan M Davis:
>
> > Regardless of what language you're
> > programming in, it's generally best to program in the typical paradigms
> of that
> > language. Trying to contort it to act like another language is _not_
> going to
> > result in optimal code.
>
> D supports functional style too now. In Bugzilla I have put most of the
> requests I think are useful. So if you have specific comments please add to
> those.


That's not the point. No matter what styles of programming D supports, it
will support them differently from other languages. This is true for pretty
much any language, so direct comparisons don't really get you much.
I come from the Java world with some Scala experience, and I frequently find
myself trying to write code the Java make-everything-an-object way, and I
just as frequently find that D can do things much more simply if I blend the
OO with imperative code and chuck in a few functional elements where useful.
I can appreciate what you're trying to do, but doing a line by line
comparison of D and Python and asking for features to make D look more like
Python just feels like you're trying to contort D into something it never
claimed to be. It's not entirely wrong, but it's not entirely right either.
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