Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

[Michal Minich]

On Tuesday, 14 August 2012 at 10:31:30 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> Note to Walter:
>
> You're obviously correct that you can make an arbitrarily 
> complex program to make it too difficult for the compiler to 
> enforce initialization, the way C# does (and gives up in some 
> cases).
>
> What you seem to be missing is that the issue you're saying is 
> correct in theory, but too much of a corner case in practice.
>
> C#/Java programmers ___rarely___ run into the sort of issue 
> you're mentioning, and even when they do, they don't have 
> nearly as much of a problem with fixing it as you seem to think.

Completely agree. I find it quite useful in C#. It helps a lot in 
hairy code (nested if/foreach/try) to make sure all cases are 
handled when initializing variable. Compilation errors can be 
simply dismissed by assigning a 'default' value to variable at 
the beginning the functions, but is generally a sloppy programing 
and you loose useful help of the compiler.

The rules in C# are very simple and almost verbatim can be 
applied to D
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa691172%28v=vs.71%29.aspx