Does D have too many features?
foobar
foo at bar.com
Mon Apr 30 03:18:40 PDT 2012
Meta comment: C++ is the spawn of the devil so I don't accept
anything related to c++ as a valid argument.
On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 20:09:34 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen
wrote:
[...]
>>
>> I have used D and didn't claim that foreach isn't useful.
>> What I said that is that it belongs in the library, NOT the
>> language.
>
> Yeah, we tried that in C++. It sucked.
See meta comment above.
>
> The reason it works for many functional languages is that they
> have even more terse syntax than D. It would suck to make
> foreach a function in D.
>
D wants to support functional programming. That means we should
provide whatever is necessary to write functional style code
including foreach methods. IF D can't properly implement a FP
foreach method (And IMO it *can*) than we have failed.
>>>
>>>> * version - this does not belong in a programming language.
>>>> Git
>>>> is a much better solution.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So you'd maintain a git branch for every OS if there is some
>>> small
>>> part that is OS-dependent? I don't think that is a better
>>> approach at
>>> all.
>>
>> It is far better than having a pile of #ifdef styled spaghetti
>> code.
>> I'd expect to have all the OS specific code encapsulated
>> separately anyway,
>> not spread around the code base. Which is the current
>> recommended way of
>> using
>> versions anyway. The inevitable conclusion would be to either
>> use a
>> version management system like git or have separate
>> implementation
>> modules for platform specific code and use the build tool to
>> implement
>> the logic of select the modules to include in the build.
>
> Yeah, we tried that in C and C++. It sucked. See: Autotools.
>
see meta comment above.
The fact that you used a horribly designed language with a
horrible mess of a "build tool" made out of shell scripts IIRC is
not an indication that the language should include build-tool
functionality.
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