Positive

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Walter Bright" wrote
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> It's very alarming to me that something like this just has no problem 
>> getting in the language without community feedback.
>
> It's there at the moment so we can look at it and see if we like it. I 
> know Andrei likes it. Anyhow, this is the opportunity for community 
> feedback.

Well, here is my feedback.

First, I hate it when D has two ways of doing something.  For example, C 
style array declarations, or function pointers.  But those have good 
reasons.  We want the new style because it's unambiguous and context-free, 
but we want the old style to allow easy porting of C code.

But this change has no qualities I can see except that Andrei thinks it 
looks better (at least, that's the only reason he's given).  There are not 
compatibility issues with C or some other language, it's just a new syntax 
that looks different.  Are there problems with the original !()?  Please 
give a reason for this addition besides asthetics, and then we can discuss 
the merits.  Or if the community overwhelmingly loves this new syntax, I 
guess that's a good reason.  Otherwise, I think it should be rejected on the 
simple principle of not fixing things that aren't broken.

-Steve