Does D have too many features?

[Sean Cavanaugh]

On 5/8/2012 3:36 PM, foobar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 19:00:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>
>> I think that goal is misunderstood. It is aimed at human being, not
>> compiler.
>>
>> If one read D code that look like C, it should be able to understand
>> it easily. I is not supped to compile with 100% exact semantic.
>
> Unfortunately that is not the case.
> The stated argument is that compiling C code with a D compiler should
> either compile exactly the same or produce a compilation error.

Thousands of my C/C++ floating point constants are broken by the CTFE 
change since as 'integer'-like float constants 31.f and won't compile 
anymore, since its trying to do f(31) to them for me now . . .