Rant after trying Rust a bit

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Fri Jul 24 04:08:37 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 20:09:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I agree that trivial syntax issues actually do matter, but 
> having used ?: a lot, I have a hard time seeing embeddable 
> if-else as a real improvement, in fact I find it more than a 
> little jarring to see.

Agreed. It makes more sense for switch/match, but D's switch 
syntax is already quite heavy, an assignment in each branch 
doesn't add much additional weight.


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