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On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 20:48:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/21/2013 12:31 PM, Rob T wrote:
>> I have to wonder if many of the features can be generalized 
>> down into less
>> features without sacrificing anything.
>
> Yeah, well, that's the major thing about any language design!

and on that note I hear the C++ community (at least one key 
member) is proposing a:

     auto add(auto a, auto b) {
         return a + b;
     }

pretty-template syntax! I wouldn't feel right if C++ had 
something that elegant and D did not *wink* *wink* :-)