Does D have too many features?

Sean Cavanaugh WorksOnMyMachine at gmail.com
Tue May 8 17:57:02 PDT 2012


On 5/8/2012 7:56 PM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> 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 . . .
>
>
>

s/CTFE/UFCS


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