A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/13/15 3:14 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/13/2015 12:01 PM, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 18:55:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/13/2015 3:34 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> "Strict mode" is a D2 with immutable+ at safe+pure by default,
>>>
>>> Note that you can get this largely by starting a module with the
>>> following:
>>>
>>>    immutable @safe pure:
>>>
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, there's no way to mark functions impure this way
>> other than
>> lexical location. Am I incorrect?
>
> You are correct, which is why D also supports:
>
>     immutable @safe pure {
>        ... nice declarations ...
>     }
>
>     ... naughty declarations ...

The bottom line is we need a way to undo attributes. -- Andrei