dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

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Leandro Lucarella pisze:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  6 de julio a las 10:44 me escribiste:
>>>> And what did those people use when they wanted to express a range of case 
>>>> labels? In other words, where did those people turn their heads towards?
>>> They probably used an if.
>> So they used an inferior means to start with.
> 
> Yes, but when you try to make people move to a different language, you
> have to do considerably better. When I have to choose between something
> well know, well supported and mature and something that is, at least,
> unknown (even if it's mature and well supported, I won't know that until
> I use it a lot so is a risk), I want to be really good, not just barely
> good.
> 
> Details as this one are not deal breaker on their own, but when they are
> a lot, it tends to make the language look ugly as a whole.
> 
> What bugs me the most is there are a lot of new constructs in the language
> that are plain ugly, from the start. D is buying it's own baggage
> (__traits, enum for manifest constants, now the case range, and I'm sure
> I'm forgetting something else) with no reason...
> 

...
* foreach_reverse
* access to variadic function parameters with _argptr & _arguments
* mess with compile time is expression (sorry, that's my favorite 
ugliness :-] )

I believe that this issues are greatly underestimated by D language 
designers...

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)