Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[simendsjo]

On 01.07.2011 00:49, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> 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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