Does D have too many features?

[deadalnix]

Le 28/04/2012 22:25, Timon Gehr a écrit :
> On 04/28/2012 09:11 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> Le 28/04/2012 20:47, Walter Bright a écrit :
>>> Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this question. The
>>> idea was which features in D are redundant and/or do not add significant
>>> value?
>>>
>>> A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat, cdouble
>>> and creal types.
>>>
>>> What's your list?
>>
>> I think many D features come from the lack of AOP in D. I already
>> mentioned that in some other thread.
>>
>
> Many times, actually. But you have *never* sketched how support for AOP
> would look like.
>

Off topic. I discussed several proposals, and I invest time ever since 
to come up with a good solution. Introducing a whole new paradigm in a 
language isn't something light.

AST manipulation at compile time is the key.