About the Expressiveness of D

[Dmitry Olshansky]

03-Apr-2013 19:55, Peter Alexander пишет:
> On Wednesday, 3 April 2013 at 02:44:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> If we did datetime all over again, I'd give a budget of 2000 lines for
>> all functionality. I bet the solution would be better.
>
> I think you are massively underestimating the complexity and subtleties
> of dates and time.
>

+1

> For comparison, min and max in std.algorithm come to nearly 200 lines on
> their own, and their unittests are hopelessly lacking. Things like
> min(uint.min, int.max) are not tested, even though there's specific code
> to handle them. To suggest that date and time handling is a mere 10x
> more complex than min/max is a bit naive in my opinion.
>


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Dmitry Olshansky