DIP1001: DoExpression

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/3/16 6:19 PM, Cauterite wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 15:28:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What's wrong with:
>>
>> auto seq(T...)(auto ref T vals) { return vals[$ - 1]; }
>
> Well there's nothing *wrong* with that, but I really think that 'do' is
> the perfect word for this purpose, and the fact that it's already a
> keyword is real convenient. For just 10 lines in parse.d we get this
> great syntax, no code breakage, no need to copy-paste a little template
> around.

This is a terrible argument. It has "why not" all over it. -- Andrei