Herb Sutter briefly discusses D during interview

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-08 12:03, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Kagamin wrote:
> > Timon Gehr Wrote:
> > > It is more convenient for the compiler to read the declaration left to
> > > right to construct the type. (just like for people)
> > 
> > a real example in the go language :)
> > 
> > hello := []byte("hello, world\n")
> 
> In your example the compiler has to parse the type "[]byte" from right to
> left, not left to right, to make sense out of it.

Does it really? It's an array of bytes, not a byte of arrays. I fully expect 
that it looks at it from left-to-right. But I don't know how they implemented 
it.

- Jonathan M Davis