Does D have too many features?

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/28/2012 10:24 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 08:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
> - Associative array literals as non-associative array initializers [1]
> - C style array declarations [2]
> - 'align' declaration [3]
> - 'synchronized' [4]
> - special treatment of built-in types during parsing [5]
> - the arcane restrictions on which exact kind of argument can be
> used to substitute which kind of template parameter
>
>

Oh, completely forgot about that one:

- 'in' operator returning a pointer to the element.