C++17 Init statement for if/switch
Joakim via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 16 05:58:03 PDT 2017
On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 21:05:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 20:31:50 UTC, Jonathan Marler
> wrote:
>
>> Without alot of usage, it will just be an esoteric construct
>> that looks confusing to the average developer.
>
> That is correct. After a while it gets tiring to see a
> neverending stream of complexity added to the language while
> things that would actually help (like IDE support) do not get
> any attention.
+1, though I'd go for bug-fixing over IDEs. It was ridiculous
that we were spending time discussing a marginal feature like
scoping imports for module-scope template constraints, ie DIP
1005, when normal scoped and selective imports are not used that
much yet, as evidenced by latent bugs like this symbol leak:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17630
> As a general rule, if it's being added to C++, it's probably a
> bad idea.
Lol. :D
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