Property discussion wrap-up

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/28/13 2:55 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 00:07:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I find this a very fluid style of programming that I'd hate to lose.
>
> And that would have been a very important argument if D was targeted as
> scripting language. But (I hope so!) it is not, thus, additional
> well-defined reasoning about the code is more important then the "fluid
> style". IMHO, of course.

As far as I understand this presupposes (a) a fluid style of programming 
is associated exclusively with scripting languages, (b) scripting 
languages have mutually exclusive benefits with systems languages. I 
disagree on both counts, and large parts of D's design disagree as well.

Andrei