Which language futures make D overcompicated?

jmh530 john.michael.hall at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 18:38:38 UTC 2018


On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:21:55 UTC, Bo wrote:
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> [snip]
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> * scope() .. just call it "defer" just as every other language 
> now does. It only confuses people who come from other 
> languages. Its now almost a standard. By using scope people 
> have have no clue that D has a defer. Took even me a while to 
> know that D had a defer system in place.
>
> 

I don't like any of your points, but this one stuck out...

D has had scope for years. I searched the change log and found it 
going back at least to 2007. What language had defer before 2007 
that D could have possibly copied from?


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