C++ launched its community survey, too

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 03:52:19PM +0000, Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 20:01:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > As Andrei wrote in TDPL, (and I paraphrase,) it sucks when built-in
> > types have magical abilities inaccessible to user code.  This is a
> > common defect in many programming languages... the "magical"
> > behaviour is wonderful when it works. But if you need something that
> > said "magic" doesn't cover, you're left up the creek without a
> > paddle.  In D, however, you're given the tools to build your own
> > equivalents of language built-ins.
> 
> Not true for implicit construction of a user-defined type. So you
> can't have a `struct Pointer` wrap a pointer fully because you can't
> pass null to a function taking a Pointer. You can't do the same for
> Algebraic element types, they're not Algebraic. In C++ you can, but
> it's by default, so you get implicit construction even when the *type
> author* didn't intend it to work.

Yeah, D does still have some dirty corners where built-in types still
have "magical" behaviour. It's much better than other languages in this
regard, though, AFAIK.


T

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