A better language

[David Medlock]

renox wrote:
> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> [cut interesting remark showing that automagic pointer dereferencing 
> reduce the interest of postfix pointer derefencing]
>> // your idea: x: @[10]->int;
>> // currently: int[10]* x;
>>
>> Knowing that in D types are read right-to-left in declarations,
> 
> I know that and for me, this is an unpleasant pitfall of D, especially 
> for array declaration:
> int[Y][X] t; and then t[x][y] = ...
> 
> t: [X]->[Y]->int; and then t[x][y] = ...
> 
> Honnestly which reads better?
> 

I would say wrap your array for the specific problem you are trying to 
solve, then override the opIndex/opIndexAssign  methods:

t[ X, Y ] = ....

Reads much better.

-DavidM