Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

[Era Scarecrow]

On Sunday, 12 August 2012 at 11:34:20 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 12.08.2012 12:38, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> A better design would be to have pure be the default and 
>> impure would require annotation. The same for const/immutable. 
>> Unfortunately, it's too late for that now. My fault.
>
> its never to late - put it back on the list for D 3 - please 
> (and local variables are immutable by default - or something 
> like that)

  Agreed. If it is only a signature change then it might have been 
possible to accept such a change; as I'm sure it would simplify 
quite a bit of signatures and only complicate a few. Probably 
default signatures to try and include are: pure, and @safe 
(Others off hand I can't think of).

  Make a list of all the issues/mistakes that can be done in D3 
(be it ten or fifteen years from now); who knows, maybe the 
future is just around the corner if there's a big enough reason 
for it. The largest reason not to make big changes is so people 
don't get fed up and quit (especially while still trying to write 
library code); That and this is suppose to be the 'stable' D2 
language right now with language changes having to be weighted 
heavily on.