Functional programming in D and some reflexion on the () optionality.

[Timon Gehr]

On 08/06/2012 07:54 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 06/08/2012 19:25, Timon Gehr a écrit :
>> On 08/06/2012 07:20 PM, Christophe Travert wrote:
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Creating byzantine language rules to cater to unimportant or
>> non-existent use cases will slaughter the language.
>
> We already have bizantine

s/bizantine/non-trivial/

> language rule here.

Also note the emphasis on 'unimportant or non-existent'.
A reason why those rules exist is probably related to the fact that
there are many distinct concepts in the language (including some C
heritage) and function declarations try to bridge between them.