Does D have too many features?

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Thu May 3 14:16:17 PDT 2012


Le 03/05/2012 22:43, Sean Kelly a écrit :
> On May 3, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Don wrote:
>
>> On 03.05.2012 21:08, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> On May 3, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/05/12 16:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> core.stdc.math corresponds to C99's math.h and is there as a part of the standard C interface.  It should only contain the required C99 prototypes, and in some cases functions if the C implementation is a macro.  If there is anything nonstandard in there, I'm not aware of it.
>>
>> Yes, but why do we have it? We're not C.
>
> Mostly because it was handy to fall back on the C API before Phobos was so well fleshed-out.  Today, I think it mostly exists to ease porting of C apps.

So they probably belongs to deimos.


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