Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:52:38 +0200, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Am 30.06.2011 23:50, schrieb KennyTM~:
>> On Jul 1, 11 05:39, bearophile wrote:
>>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>>
>>>> Actually, I find the backticks to be by far the most pleasant way to
>>>> get raw
>>>> strings in D.
>>>
>>> I don't have backticks on my keyboard, so I use them only when they
>>> are needed. They have even removed the backticks in the Python2 ->
>>> Python3 transition partially because of this (and partially because
>>> there is a more obvious way to do it in Python, and Python tries to
>>> keep only one obvious way to do things).
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>
>> Python's `xyz` is equivalent to repr(xyz). I think it is removed in
>> Python 3 more because `...` is not worth the specialness as repr(). But
>> D's `...` is much more worthy as a convenient literal syntax when
>> involving '"' or '\'.
>>
>> (I know some keyboard doesn't have '[' and ']'. So having no '`'
>> shouldn't be the reason it is removed from the language.)
>
> Keyboards without []? This makes programming nearly impossible O_O

And standard Norwegian layout has them on AltGr+8/9. The pain.
But using US int'l has the added advantage of confusing the hell out
of my cow-orkers when they try to use my confuser (which has thus earned
that title :p).

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   Simen