D community's view on syntactic sugar

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/15/18 8:53 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 June 2018 at 00:32:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:20:35AM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 23:04:40 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
>>> > For someone coming from a C# background there is some > seemingly 
>>> simple syntactic sugar missing from D.
>>> > > * The null conditional operator `?.`
>>>
>>> e.g. SafeAccess
>>>
>>> https://github.com/BBasile/iz/blob/7336525992cb178ead83a7893a5a54597d840441/import/iz/sugar.d#L1551 
>>>
>>
>> Didn't Andrei propose an Elvis operator some time ago? Whatever became 
>> of that DIP?
>>
>>
>> T
> 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/ot1q8b$23pt$1@digitalmars.com
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7242
> 
> I think Razvan focused on other projects no one else bothered enough to 
> write a DIP about this.

I don't know if this is the same thing. I'm not a (recent) C# developer, 
but in Swift, ?. means something completely different from ?: in 
Andrei's proposal.

-Steve