Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/15 1:11 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 04:46:07PM -0300, Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 4/7/15 3:34 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 18:01:53 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>>> On 4/7/15 2:16 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 08:58:57 UTC, ixid wrote:
>>>>>> Or to be more consistent with UFCS:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> foreach (name; names.parallel) {
>>>>>>    name.writeln;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> no.please
>>>>
>>>> wat
>>>
>>> unreadable.is.ufcs.using.over
>>
>> Yes, I don't like "writeln" being used with UFCS, it's an abuse.
>>
>> My point is that every language has WATs :-)
>
> My current favorite WAT in D is:
>
> 	import std.stdio;
> 	void fun(string text) {
> 		import std.conv;
> 		writeln(text);
> 	}
> 	void main() {
> 		fun("Hello world");
> 	}
>
> This program outputs a blank line. :-)

Yeah, I think it's urgent we fix that. -- Andrei