Discussion Thread: DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Final Review

[welkam]

On Friday, 1 July 2022 at 01:10:28 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Go is neither simple nor uniform. The DIP is making D a bit 
> simpler and more uniform.

I guess we are still talking past each other. When I was talking 
about uniformity I was not talking about language rules. I was 
talking about code that is in the wild and how it looks. When you 
look at Go code thats in the wild it all look sameish. Thats the 
uniformity I talk about and I say it has value. Simplicity also 
has value. Sharing links that criticize Go`s foreign function 
interface does nothing to refute my statements especially when 
the blog you linked even support my statements.
>After all, Go is an easy language to pick up

The code snippets I provided were intended to show visual 
similarities between function declaration and variable 
declaration with assignment. Currently lambdas appear in one 
context and function declarations in another. With this DIP 
function declarations with lambda pattern will start to appear in 
places where you can declare functions. In D`s case its 
practically everywhere. That means function declarations and 
variable declarations will be intermixed. Now look at this 
beautiful class.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/4513d32447ddb1221581dd555b04851db6ec8afd/src/dmd/dmodule.d#L320

Imagine you need to work on it at Friday. Afternoon. While having 
poor sleep the night before. And the coffee run out.
Try to count how many properties that class has. While counting 
in your mind try to insert function declarations in all possible 
places. See how things change.


C# 6.0 has been released in 2015. I dont believe new tutorials 
were just lazy to upate.

Me personally I dont need things that make easy thing easier. I 
need things that make difficult things easier.