Does D have too many features?

[Jens Mueller]

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 . .
> .

I wholeheartedly agree that breaking changes are frustrating. But
especially this one was needed. What we should provide is a clear path
to fix the code. In your case, search and replace using a regular
expression like s/(\d+).f/\1.0f/g is the way to fix your code in less
than 5 minutes I hope.

Jens