DMD 0.154 release

Kyle Furlong kylefurlong at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 14:39:37 PDT 2006


antonio wrote:
> Lionello Lunesu escribió:
>> antonio wrote:
>>> It's, basically, an absurd.
>>
>> It's not that absurd. Everything else in C/C++/D is already case 
>> sensitive, so why not do the same for the L/i suffix??
>>
>> L.
> Nothing to say about "case sensitive"... my desagree is about the 
> "prohibition" of using a alphabetic valid ASCII char (Upper case or 
> Lower case)... because "graphical representation" or "font look&feel"... 
> for me is the same than the "prohibition" of using more than 80 chars by 
> line because screen width limitation.... basically an absurd.... If you 
> consider than "I" or "l" prefix are problematic... don't use them.
> 
> 
> There is really important needs... losting time in this kind of minor 
> "look&feel problems" talks very bad about D platform road map... We need 
> a debugger (and other unique things... but this is a very old 
> discussion).  I can't defend D language in my company because D is not a 
> development platform... its only a Compiler... nothing more than this... 
> basically, a toy (it's the conclusion of one recent meeting with the 
> developers team in my company:  D is not valid for our needs).
> 
> Sorry...
> Antonio
> 

Very valid point. This is a triviality. Lets move on to the important 
things.



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