Does D have too many features?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sun Apr 29 08:50:48 PDT 2012


On 28.04.2012 20:47, 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?

* The >>> operator, which does nothing except introduce bugs (It does 
NOT perform an unsigned shift).
* package. I have no idea how a failed Java experiment got incorporated 
into D.
* the zoo of parameter passing options
* Most of the __traits are useless and redundant.


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