D parsing

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/10/13 11:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-11-10 23:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> The way I see this is, these preexisting features (which shan't be
>> thrown away) diminish the motivation for adding another feature.
>
> I think the opposite. It shows how powerful macros are and that they
> will most likely be able to implement other new features that haven't
> been proposed yet.
>
> Adding a bunch of new features to the language instead of taking a step
> back and thinking if something else can be added that implement these
> features and many more shows bad judgement.

No need to be snarky about it. The point here is that there is 
significant difficulty to remove features that already exist and are 
useful, which changes the game considerably.

Andrei