Few mixed things

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:42:20 +0400, BCS <ao at pathlink.com> wrote:

> Reply to Nick,
>
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:gsku34$29tn$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>>
>>>> BCS:
>>>>
>>>>> you spotted the issue, code porting and principle of least
>>>>> surprise<
>>>>>
>>>> - Code porting: If you port C code to D, it uses /* */ in a non
>>>> nested way
>>>>
>>> No. This is valid C:
>>>  /* comment /* more comment */
>>>
>> That seems like a rather trivial thing to be designing our language
>> around. And regarding principle of least surprise, the current /**/
>> behavior is only least-surprise for people who are already familiar
>> with that particular detail of /**/. From a fresher perspective, the
>> /++/ behavior is vastly less surprising.
>>  I can understand the desire not to cause too much trouble for porting,
>> but sometimes I think D places far too much emphasis on that.
>>
>
> I'd be fine depricating /**/.
>
>

You mean, deprecating /++/?

Personally, I rarely use /++/ because it feels uncommon and unstandard. I will be glad if /**/ become nestable and /++/ go away.