Does D have too many features?

[Don Clugston]

On 03/05/12 16:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/3/12 9:55 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 28/04/12 20:47, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Andrei and I had a fun discussion last night about this question. The
>>> idea was which features in D are redundant and/or do not add significant
>>> value?
>>>
>>> A couple already agreed upon ones are typedef and the cfloat, cdouble
>>> and creal types.
>>>
>>> What's your list?
>>
>> Other ones which were agreed to a long time ago were:
>>
>> * NCEG operators
>>
>> * built-in .sort and .reverse
>
> Good ones. In fact I even discounted them from this discussion because
> I'd already considered them gone. Walter agreed that I don't mention
> them in TDPL, with the intent to have them peter out.
>
> One good step right now would be to remove NCEG operators from the
> online documentation. Later on, we'll consider them an accept-invalid
> bug :o).

Well, they are also used in druntime, in core.stdc.math

BTW I *hate* that module, I don't know why it exists. Even worse, it 
seems to be growing -- people are adding more things to it.
Practically everything in there has a better implementation in std.math.