D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Andre Artus]

On Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 03:42:10 UTC, Ary Manzana wrote:
> On 5/12/12 3:40 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 20:20:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> That's definitely an example of something that depends on your
>>> background. std.algorithm.any does _exactly_ what it would do 
>>> in a
>>> functional language.
>>
>> Well, I know some FP (Scheme/newLISP) but they don't have an 
>> "any"
>> function. I don't know about F#, but my guess would be that it 
>> would do
>> the same thing as C# would (for obvious reasons).
>>
>> Are you thinking of a language in particular that has D's 
>> behavior? Or
>> is this just a guess?
>
> Ruby has any?:
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Enumerable.html#method-i-any-3F
>
> And it's the best of the two worlds: given a block (a lambda) 
> it works like D. Give no lambda and it just returns true if the 
> enumerable has any elements.
>
> Ruby wins again. :-P

This is in fact the exact behaviour of .NET's Any (on 
IEnumerable). This is a library thing, not a language thing.