Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 13:41:02 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 02:14:22 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 15.11.21 09:01, Arjan wrote:
>> 
>>> [...]
>> 
>> Just WOW.
>> 
>> What would be needed to get you working on this again?
>
> Some reassurance that it won't be shot down for stupid reasons 
> would go a long way. For `static foreach`, the desired 
> semantics were clear to Walter and Andrei from the start and 
> they really wanted that feature in DMD, so that the DIP process 
> went pretty smoothly. I am not feeling any similar excitement 
> for tuples, even though it's the most wanted feature among 
> forum readers according to the state of D 2018 survey... I just 
> don't have the time and energy required for week-long forum 
> debates anymore.

I don't see any good reason to shut it down, never mind stupid 
reasons.


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