Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/8/15 10:04 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 16:56:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Considering I am far from the only person having problems
>>> with it in our team and such style is extremely common because of being
>>> easy - this can easily be one of most damaging language features in D in
>>> terms of wasted developer time.
>>
>> Again trying with ad populum. Not buying it.
>
> I don't even slightly care about your opinion here. It is just another
> annoying custom style rule I have to deal with. Casual necessity for
> actually getting work done with D.

I guess I deserve this for making my point as a jerk. I shouldn't engage 
in brief bickering when I don't have time. My point was: you'd need some 
detail to back up your claim about those wasted hours because I also 
work on a large D project at work with others and that hasn't been an 
issue, like, ever. We ended up just not adding the pesky "()"s simply 
because sitting down and deciding which deserves and which doesn't was a 
waste of time. E.g. front and empty shouldn't, but popFront should. 
Really no reason for it.

> And if "not buying it" is all you can say about actual experience report
> (however opinionated it is) this tells quite a lot about how justified
> _your_ preference is.

Yah, I do think it's a matter of preference.


Andrei