Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri Apr 17 12:40:38 PDT 2009


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky, el 17 de abril a las 14:45 me escribiste:
>>> I'm not yet convinced, but it remains to be seen if there is some killer 
>>> functionality that cannot be had without it.
>> Same here. So far, it just doesn't seem worth the loss of knowing at a 
>> glance what is and what might not be verified at compile-time. If I wanted 
>> to be throwing compile-time guarantees out the window, I'd go use PHP.
> 
> Being able to do it doesn't mean you have to use it always. You don't
> loose anything if you don't use it =)

Correction: You don't lose anything if *nobody you interact with* uses 
it. A feature that is wide open to abuse is dangerous, even if you'll 
never abuse it yourself.
The feature has to be worth using.




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