"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon May 18 21:20:11 PDT 2009


Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:02:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:31:23 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I completely disagree that that's a special case. ".." is punctuation. 
>>>>>> You can't pretend punctuation has the same meaning everywhere in a 
>>>>>> programming language.
>>>>> I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that one must expect that the meaning of
>>>>> punctuation in a programming language depends on the context the
>>>>> punctuation is found in?
>>>> How many meanings does '[' have in your favorite programming language?
>>> One.
>> No.
> 
> But you never asked for the name of my favourite language?
> 

Yah, I realized my flawed supposition after sending :o). So, what is it?

Andrei



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