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[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:07:27 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 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

Oh, I forgot about these:

- omittable parens - bad feature. I wish a real property syntax existed  
(with only .foo; allowed, no .foo(); please).

[Minor|Wish] overlapping array operation. The following should be allowed,  
even if it makes things slightly slower. Why user should care?
void foo(T[] t1, T[] t2) {
     ...
     t1[] = t2[]; // overlap or not? who knows..
     t1[0..100] = t1[10..110]; // yes, they do, so what?
     ...
}

[Wish] Stack allocation - why allocate on heap when you can allocate on  
stack?

void drawString(char[] text) {
     int length = getLengthAsUtf16String(text); // for leading zero
     wchar[length + 1] buffer;                  // C++ and C++0x both have  
this feature
     convertToUtf16String(text, buffer); buffer[length] = 0;
     graphics.DrawString(font, color, buffer.ptr);
}

Do you write down? :)
Thanks.