The Case Against Autodecode

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 2 09:19:50 PDT 2016


On 06/02/2016 11:58 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, June 02, 2016 09:06:44 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> Meanwhile, I go to conferences. Train and consult at large companies.
>> Dozens every year, cumulatively thousands of people. I talk about D and
>> ask people what it would take for them to use the language. Invariably I
>> hear a surprisingly small number of reasons:
>
> Are folks going to not start using D because of auto-decoding? No, because
> they won't know anything about it. Many of them don't even know anything
> about ranges.

Actually ranges are a major reason for which people look into D. -- Andrei


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