Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 29-04-2012 21:19, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 12:26:13 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> What's your list?
>>
>> My personal list of features I could easily live without – some of
>> these might be controversial, but yes, I have written non-trivial
>> amounts of code in both D1 and D2:
>
> What I forgot to mention:
> - VersionCondition: Just provide a mechanism to map command line flags
> to constants, probably in a magic »version« namespace, and use static if
> (e.g. »version (Foo)« -> »static if (version.Foo)«, »version (unittest)«
> -> »static if (unittest)«).

Something like that seems reasonable. At any rate, version in its 
current state is not very useful in practice.

>
> - DebugCondition: Hardly used in practice, at least not in ways that
> couldn't easily be replaced with a static if (resp. version). It is a
> frequent source of confusion for newcomers that -debug is orthogonal to
> -O/-release, and I'm not too fond of the purity »escape hatch« built in
> (why not just use casts in those rare cases?).

+1. And debug being a keyword is more annoying than you'd think.

>
> David

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- Alex