How does D improve design practices over C++?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>  The main reason the preprocessor is evil is because it does
>> completely ignores scoping rules.
> 
> It's worse than that. The preprocessor is a completely separate and 
> distinct language from the rest of C++. They share nothing. The symbol 
> tables are distinct and inaccessible between them. The tokens are 
> different; even the rules for parsing expressions are different.
> 

And it makes IDE functionality much more difficult to implement... ;)


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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