"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

[Georg Wrede]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Georg Wrede <georg.wrede at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>>> So '1.' and '.1'  are legal numbers in D? I would have assumed that any
>>> numerical literal with a decimal point would require at least one digit on
>>> both sides of the decimal point. Not sure I see a good reason for this not
>>> to be required.
>> Agreed. Saving ink in 1. versus 1.0 and .1 versus 0.1 is stupid -- even if
>> we don't consider "the new space operator" implications!!!!!! It really
>> makes it hard to spot the odd decimal value when you're not expecting it
>> there.
>>
>> That's mainly an American invention. In Europe, in most countries, you
>> couldn't ever write .1 without everybody shouting typo!
>>
>> Had D been invented in Europe, .1 would never have crossed anybodys mind.
>> After several decades, I'm still uncomfortable when anybody writes .1, be it
>> in programming or on street billboards.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm American and have neither seen the 'one-sided
> floating-point number' used in public nor am I comfortable with it
> being in a programming language.  It just doesn't look right.

Yeah. If it was up to me, it'd be forbidden.