dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  6 de julio a las 18:32 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >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.
> 
> That goes without saying.
> 
> >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.
> 
> You are just saying it's ugly. I don't think it's ugly. Walter doesn't
> think it's ugly. Other people don't think it's ugly. Many of the people
> who said it's ugly actually came up with proposals that are arguably
> ugly, hopelessly confusing, or both. Look at only some of the rehashed
> proposals of today: the genial "case [0 .. 10]:" which is horribly
> inconsistent, and the awesome "case 0: ... case 10:", also inconsistent
> (and gratuitously so) because ellipses today only end lists without
> having something to their right. The authors claim those are better than
> the current syntax, and one even claimed "beauty", completely ignoring
> the utter lack of consistency with the rest of the language. I don't
> claim expertise in language design, so I wish there were a few good
> experts in this group.

Please read the thread at D NG, the current syntax *is* inconsistent too.

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