Does D have too many features?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 30.04.2012 10:55, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, April 30, 2012 01:41:45 bearophile wrote:
>> Walter:
>>> What's your list?
>>
>> This thread now has something like 240 answers (and probably few
>> more will come), and despite some variability in the answers, we
>> have seen several recurring patterns too. So what are the
>> conclusions, take-home insights, and the to-do's to make
>> something in practice, from Walter&  Andrei?
>
> Honestly, I don't think that you _can_ take much from this thread other than
> the fact that pretty _every_ feature is wanted and used by someone, even if
> other people hate it. Pretty much every feature listed as undesirable by
> someone was listed as desirable by someone else.

foreach_reverse, comma operator, etc.

>
> As for TODOs, the impression that I got from Walter's post was that he wanted
> to know what people thought out of curiosity or just for "lessons learned"
> from the design process of D and not that he was really looking to remove
> anything from the language. So, I don't think that it was ever his intention
> to create a TODO list from this (though I could be wrong). There may be some
> minor things that get changed (such as making it so that adjacent string
> literals don't get automatically concatenated), but I don't think that D is
> really going to have any of its features removed at this point.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis


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Dmitry Olshansky