version: multiple conditions

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 17:18:42 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:05:06 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> On 6/14/2015 4:03 AM, ketmar wrote:
>>> honestly, if i'll want to have a limited language, i'll take 
>>> Go.
>> 
>> Go doesn't have conditional compilation.
>
> you got it!
>
>
>>  > removing a power only 'cause it can be abused is not in a 
>> "spirit of
>>  > D",
>> 
>> Actually, D does quite a bit of that. For example, it 
>> deliberately does not allow > to be overloaded separately from 
>> <. It does not allow multiple inheritance. It does not allow 
>> structs to have virtual functions.
>> 
>> (All of these deliberate limitations have had their 
>> proponents.)
>
> and you know what? people constantly trying to "fix" that. what 
> is funny is that sometimes ugly kludges are even considered for 
> inclusion into language ("multiple `alias this`, i'm looking at 
> you! ah, and `alias this` for that matter).

sometimes I find 'alias this' quite elegant, such as using alias 
this to a function. Other times I find it to be a poor hack to 
get around the lack of struct inheritance.