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[Sean Kelly]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> This doesn't have much support from Walter, I'm afraid.
> 
>> [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?
>>     ...
>> }
> 
> I think this often indicates an error.

There appears to be some rather new runtime support for overlapping 
array copies in D2 though.  Any idea where this is headed?


Sean