Is it true scope declarations are being removed?

[bearophile]

Andrej Mitrovic:

> I don't understand it either. AFAIK they are being removed because
> they're unsafe, and are being replaced by an unsafe library solution.

I have hated see typedef and scoped classes go (I have even missed delete), but you need a bit of faith in the future and in Andrei & Walter. Andrei is not evil, and he's smart. D2 language is a very young language, and when a built-in feature looks not perfect, it's better to remove it now. If you remove it, you will have plenty of time in future to add it back, add something better implementation of it, or to find a better and very different solution, or even to add a more general language feature that allows you to implement the original half-broken feature in library code. While if something badly designed is left in the language, then you are struck with it forever, or almost forever. Generally in language it's 10-100 times simpler to add a new feature than to remove it :-) Better to start with a not complete D2 language, a language with holes waiting to be filled, that with a language with unfixable warts that you may "fix" just adding another better feature and pretending the old one doesn't exist any more (example: nullptr of C++0x).

Bye,
bearophile