Does D have too many features?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:39:03AM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
> 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.

Yeah that one elicited a WAT from me when I first started using it.
Surprisingly enough, it sounded OK when I read it in TDPL, but when I
started using it I realized just how b0rken it is.


T

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