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[Mike]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Ok, per Aarti's suggestion: without speaking officially for Walter, let 
> me ask this - what do you think are the top issues you'd like to see 
> fixed in D?
> 
> Andrei

Mostly some things from C#:

1. Real Properties

Please! Seriously ... please.

2. Attributes - and deprecate some keywords we wouldn't need anymore

// just an example; I don't really want to pick on foreach_reverse, although I wouldn't mind if it died :)

foreach_reverse(a; b) { ... }

[reversed] foreach(a; b) { ... }

3. Extension methods

4. Replace C-style switch with something modern and more D-like:

switch (x)
{
    case (0) foo();
    case (1)
    {
        bar();
        baz();
    }
    else throw new Exception("nope");
}

5. In the future: LINQ