Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

[12345swordy]

On Sunday, 4 November 2018 at 15:40:03 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Nov 2018 11:36:39 +0000, FooledDonor wrote:
>> Can we argue about the problems arising from the potential 
>> introduction of this feature?
>
> There are many potential features that wouldn't cause problems 
> in isolation. Should we add all of them? Obviously not; the 
> result would be a horribly complex language that takes too much 
> time to learn and is impossible to maintain.
No one should/need learn the entire tool itself in order to get 
thing done. If you found yourself in such a situation, then you 
seriously need to rethink on what you should be doing.

-Alex