Does D have too many features?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:47:59PM +0200, bearophile wrote:
> H. S. Teoh:
> 
> >When you have nested with's.
> >
> >Or when the object members shadow local variables in the parent
> >scope.
> >
> >	struct S {
> >		int x;
> >	}
> >
> >	void main() {
> >		int x, y;
> >		S s;
> >
> >		with(s) {
> >			x = 1;
> >			y = 2;
> >		}
> >	}
> 
> That code doesn't compile:
> 
> test.d(10): Error: with symbol test.S.x is shadowing local symbol
> test.main.x
[...]

Which means your code is at the mercy of the external library. Upstream
updates a class, and suddenly a whole bunch of code is unnecessarily
broken (if you had just used aliases instead, there would be no
problem).


T

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