DConf 2013 last talk

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/2/13 11:02 PM, Sergei Nosov wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 23:59:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I'll answer community questions in my last talk at DConf 2013, which
>> is about 24 hours from now. Please send yours here or on Twitter #dconf.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> What are the plans regarding "functional part" of the language?
>
> 1) It seems the standard library would benefit from implementing
> functional alternatives to every statement (e.g. foreach, switch, etc.).
> There are some more interesting functions (like "tap" which was
> discussed on this NG not so long ago)

Probably I won't discuss this because it's a very new idea.

> 2) @pure functions - attribute inferring (feasible? good idea? going to
> be implemented in some way?) and optimizations (is there any good
> showcases right know? what's the potential? what's planned?)

I'll try to touch on attribute inference. Thanks!


Andrei