dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Leandro Lucarella]

aarti_pl, el  7 de julio a las 00:27 me escribiste:
> 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 :-] )

But these ones at least are not new (I'm sure they were new at some point,
but now are baggage). The new constructs are future baggage.

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Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/
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