Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 29-04-2012 23:54, Peter Alexander wrote:
> 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.
>

Indeed; at some point, you have to admit that implementation will have 
some impact on design. We don't live an ideal world, unfortunately. ;)

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- Alex