Does D have too many features?

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 21:18:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 29/04/2012 03:06, bearophile a écrit :
>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>
>>> * foreach_reverse is essentially redudant at this point (not 
>>> to mention
>>> confusing if combined with delegates), since we have retro.
>>
>> retro() can't replace foreach_reverse until the front-end
>> demonstrability produces asm code equally efficient.
>> Loops _must_ be fully efficient, they are a basic language 
>> construct,
>> this is very important. Even foreach() is sometimes not equally
>> efficient as a for() in some cases...
>>
>
> This is an implementation issue and shouldn't be an argument 
> for language design.

The 'sufficiently smart compiler' argument is old and invalid. 
Please do not use it.