Simplify some C-style code

[Andy Valencia]

On Saturday, 28 December 2024 at 23:23:02 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> The spec would need to drastically improve before my opinion 
> changes; Im also uninterested practicing withholding my 
> opinions.
>
> There are many many ancient bugs, that you need to inherent 
> implicit knowledge to navigate, either those a) should actually 
> be fixed or b) the spec should make such knowledge explicit

On the other hand, I'd characterize the language as very nicely 
designed, and the spec and Programming in D to be tremendously 
helpful.  The responsiveness and quality of comments on this 
forum has always sufficed to fill in the gaps.  Just recently a 
submitted a bug on Phobos, which was quickly and kindly narrowed 
down to something else (changed ldc2 default).

The community is the real treasure.

Can the spec be improved?  No doubt.  I hope you can find a way 
to get the flaws you've found incorporated.

Andy