Proposal for fixing dchar ranges

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Tue Mar 11 07:46:00 PDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:49:40AM +0000, Meta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 00:02:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> >Walter Bright:
> >
> >>In the last couple days, we also wound up annoying a valuable
> >>client with some minor breakage with std.json, reiterating how
> >>important it is to not break code if we can at all avoid it..
> >
> >There are still some breaking changed that I'd like to perform in
> >D, like deprecating certain usages of the comma operator, etc.
[...]
> That damnable comma operator is one of the worst things that was
> inherited from C. IMO, it has no use outside the header of a for
> loop, and even there it's suspect.

I've always been of the opinion that the comma operator in a for loop
should be treated as special syntax, rather than a language-wide
operator. The comma operator must die. :P


T

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