Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 05:30:18 UTC, Philippe Sigaud via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> I did a translation of most of the code in the slides.
>>
>> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/72b5cfcb72e4
>>
>> I'm planning to transform it into blog post (or series). Right 
>> now it just
>> has some scratch notes. Feel free to let me know everything I 
>> got wrong.
>
> That's a good idea. I think most of us did that while listening 
> to the
> talk. I kept telling myself: 'oh wait, that'd simpler in D' or 
> 'that
> does not exist in D'.
>
> As for the class inheritance problem, I'd also be interested in 
> an answer.

When he explained why C++ inferred a const int type as int, he 
tripped me up because D does drop const for value types. But D 
does the simple to explain thing, may not be the expected thing 
(seen questions about it in D.learn), but it is simple to explain.