D community's view on syntactic sugar

Sat Jun 23 05:21:03 UTC 2018

On 06/16/2018 03:18 AM, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 June 2018 at 05:48:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) 
> wrote:
>> But short of that...no sugar is likely to happen anytime soon that 
>> isn't library-based, I'm genuinely sorry to report :(
> 
> The reason I don't like library support in particular because you can't 
> alway rely on a library, they take some time setting up, and maybe the 
> open source project you're contributing to doesn't want libraries 
> whatever how small.

Sorry, I was unclear: I meant the standard library, not third party 
library. (Although, third party library is certainly always one way to 
go too.)