Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Jun 29 23:52:06 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-29 22:31, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> I would agree that macros are a bit hard to read in ddoc. There's some
> nice ideas in this thread.
>
> Luckily I don't get to see garbage like this in D code:
>          ///<summary>
>          /// Required designer variable.
>          ///</summary>
>          private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;
>
> Really, you need XML tags to give me 3 words of information that I
> could live without? It basically guarantees nobody will touch the
> language without an XML processing IDE/editor. Maybe VIM/Emacs do have
> XML processing built in so they can hide this thing, but a single '//'
> would do just fine here, no? :)

Having XML in comments/documentation like that is just ridicules.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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