DMD 0.170 release (foreach_reverse)

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Mike Parker kirjoitti:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> The price of a poorly thought-out feature in a language can have 
>> repercussions beyond how it affects one's day to day writing of code.
> 
> It's a keyword with an underscore. Big deal. No one has to use it. I 
> really think this is being blown way out of proportion. I've read all of 
> these arguments against foreach_reverse and they just don't make sense 
> to me. How is it poorly thought out? It makes perfect sense to me.
> 
>>
>> Already there have been a few people here who looked at 
>> foreach_reverse and said "if this is representative of D, then I'll 
>> find another alternative, thank you".  If the community shrinks, or 
>> fails to grow as it could, then that certainly impacts all D users.  
>> It's all about the network effect.  I can say for myself when I saw 
>> the foreach_reverse addition it seriously made me consider whether 
>> there was any hope for D long term.  If this is the kind of design 
>> decision being made today, then what hope is there for the long term?  
>> There's no Bell Labs or Sun Microsystems backing it, so it can't just 
>> power its way through bad design.  It's got to compete on quality.
> 
> People who turn away from D because of one keyword they find unusual can 
> stay away. I wouldn't want to work with such people. Programmers can be 
> a fickle lot, but that's ridiculous in the extreme. It's like the C++ 
> programmer who says, "If your code uses char*, you have a bug."
> 
> There are other issues in D that are more likely to, and have, turned 
> people away, as I see it. A keyword with an underscore that no one even 
> need use is nothing.


I do not want to participate in verbal tennis, just to express my 
support and humble opinion as hobbyist programmer I totally agree with 
this one. I would use foreach_reverse to do foreach in reversed order.