Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 03-05-2012 17:13, Don Clugston wrote:
> 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.

But not quite everything yet. When I tried to pure/nothrow/@safe-ify 
std.math[special], I eventually stumbled upon code that used core.stdc.math.

It would definitely be nice if we could completely kill any dependency 
on that module, so we can actually make proper use of 
pure/nothrow/@safe, etc.

-- 
- Alex