Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 28-04-2012 22:43, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:47:31AM -0700, 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.
>
> D has typedef?? Wow. And I thought I had a good grasp of D.

It "has" typedef, but it is deprecated.

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>
>> What's your list?
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> Comma operator.

+1.

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> foreach_reverse.

+1.

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> with statements. They make code hard to read, and besides you can (or
> should be able to) alias long expressions into a short identifier for
> this purpose anyway.

I don't think I agree entirely here. If you have very long sequences of 
statements operating on the same object, with can be very useful. That 
said, I recognize that the current implementation of with needs some work.

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> The great variety of string quoting syntax, while useful, seem to need
> some cleanup and unification. Get rid of r"", `` works just fine. (Or
> vice versa, but not both.) Delimited strings and token strings may be
> possible to be unified, perhaps?

IMHO r"" is better than `` for the simple reason that typing `` is 
extremely annoying on non-US keyboards.

>
> It's about time octal literals went the way of the bit bucket.

I think those are already deprecated.

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> There's probably more, I'll post them as I think of them.
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- Alex