Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Timon Gehr]

On 23.11.21 14:41, Atila Neves wrote:
> 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.

There are some details such as ABI and sizeof(()). I'll probably get 
back to this by January. (Some other commitments will have ended by then.)