D style guide [Was: Re: Fatal flaw in...]

[Walter Bright]

Matt wrote:
> I know this conversation thread is a silly anecdote to many hardcore readers
> in this newsgroup, but it's message is dead-on serious when it applies to
> intelligent outsiders who peruse D, and sophomores in college trying to learn
> how to program, among others.

The thing is, often people focus on something silly when deciding what 
technology to use. For example, just go to any C++ forum and say you don't use 
C++ because of X. You'll get a million vehement responses saying how X isn't 
really an issue and has a trivial workaround.