What the hell is wrong with D?

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 19:16:05 UTC, EntangledQuanta 
wrote:
>
> ()?: is not ambiguous!
>
> The D community preaches all this safety shit but when it comes 
> down to it they don't seem to really care(look at the other 
> responses like like "Hey, C does it" or "Hey, look up the 
> operator precedence"... as if those responses are meaningful).
>

I sympathize that it was a difficult to find problem. Happens to 
me a lot. Nevertheless, I pretty much never use ternary operators 
because Matlab was my first language was it doesn't have them. 
I'm always writing out if() { } else { }. So it's not really an 
error that happens for me.

The point that others and myself were making about C is that your 
initial post was very critical of D and Walter. Unduly, IMO. You 
were blaming D for the problem, when it turns out that in 
virtually every language that uses this syntax it works this way 
(and I checked like 10, just to be sure). Harshly criticizing 
Walter for something that is a generally accepted way of doing 
things across many programming languages is unreasonable. D never 
promised to be the greatest language ever whose users never ever 
write any buggy code at all. It's aims are a bit more limited 
than that.

There's an easy solution to your problem: use more parentheses 
with conditional ternary operators.