Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el  7 de junio a las 11:24 me escribiste:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >Yea, that's a good example of why I've grown a distaste towards
> >hard-and-fast religious design strategies. The designer inevitably
> >comes across cases where it just doesn't work particularly well,
> >and then they're forced to either stay true to their misguided
> >principles by accepting an awkward problematic design, or
> >contradict their alleged principles and go with a better design.
> >And when they do the latter, that runs the risk of causing
> >problems in other areas that had been relying on the old principle
> >being rigidly followed.
> 
> D has design principles, but those principles are often
> contradictory. I don't see a good reason to follow a design
> principle out of principle if it destroys the utility of the
> language.
> 
> For example, consider:
> 
>     version (unittest)
> 
> 'unittest' is a keyword, not an identifier. Making this work
> requires a special case in the grammar. But the alternatives,
> 
>     version (Unittest)
>     version (unit_test)
>     version (unittests)
> 
> etc. are all much worse than simply violating a principle and
> putting the special case in.

Please, document this!

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4230

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