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On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 10:45:53 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:29:55 -0000, Szymon Gatner 
> <noemail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:06:58 UTC, John Colvin 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 14:52:00 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 14:42:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>>>> There is also one complex and feature-reach implementation 
>>>>> of uniqueness concept by Sonke Ludwig : 
>>>>> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/blob/master/source/vibe/core/concurrency.d#L281 
>>>>> (Isolated!T)
>>>>>
>>>>> Priceless for message passing concurrency.
>>>>
>>>> Tbh it only looks worse and worse to me :(
>>>>
>>>> Another example of code necessary to overcome language 
>>>> limitations.
>>>
>>> Or, alternatively:
>>>
>>> A language flexible enough to facilitate library solutions 
>>> for problems that would normally require explicit language 
>>> support.
>>
>> I dig flexibility, I really do, and I appreciate D's features 
>> that enable that, but in case of such basic thing as a 
>> resource management, I just want things to work without 
>> surprises by default.
>
> Amen.  (Not used religiously)
>
> I have been around D for a long time, and I have noticed a 
> growing trend of solving problems with "clever" but complicated 
> library solutions when in *some* cases a simpler built-in 
> solution was possible.  I realise Walter's time is precious and 
> I realise that adding complexity to the language itself is 
> something to be generally avoided, but I think sometimes we 
> make the wrong choice.
>
> R

Yeah scope -> scoped is IMO such a wrong choice. :)