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[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 06:31:46 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:59 PM, José Armando García Sancio <
> jsancio at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> Personally I am not a huge fan of using strings as a way to 
>> pass a
>> function into a high-order function. I suspect that this 
>> string stuff
>> became popular because D didn't have lambda declarations and 
>> type
>> inference when the module was designed and implemented. I 
>> wonder if
>> the module signatures would look different if you designed it 
>> to use
>> the current features of D.
>>
>> To be honest, when first saw 'some_array.map!"a+1"()' a few 
>> years back
>> when I first learned about D my knee jerk reaction was: "from 
>> where in
>> the world is 'a' coming from?". I remember I had to read
>> std/algorithm.d and whatever module implements unary "string"
>> functions to figure out what was going on. Anyways, I digress.
>>
>> Part of me looks forward to the day that I can use D reliably 
>> another
>> part of my wants to just wait for Rust to hopefully get it 
>> "right".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jose
>>
>
> There was a pull to switch std.algorithm over to the new lambda 
> syntax (by
> me).  It caused the dmd unit tests to fail though.  There is 
> also an issue
> with intermodule visibility of nested structs that popped up 
> and prevented
> the every function from being switched over.  I should probably 
> recreate
> the pull request so one of the compiler guys can take a look.
>
> BA

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/744