What would you rewrite in D?

[Emil Madsen]

I would love to rewrite the copybyvalue and copybyreference schematics, to
one, and then keep that one. I think its counter intuitive that the same
syntax is used for both, and tbh, if everything was just copybyvalue, one
would be able to use by reference, if they wanted to by explicitly declaring
so, using pointers/references/ect., this is the one thing that bugged me
mostly in Java, when coming from C, and the thing that bugs me the most
about D.

On 6 October 2010 00:27, sybrandy <sybrandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just asking out of curiosity.  With all the great language features, I'm
> sure that many of you have thought about this.
>
>  For me, I figured a good start would be your basic Unix/Linux/BSD
> utilities, like cat and grep.  I figure it may make the code easier to read
> and maintain as well as potentially improve the quality of the software.  Of
> course, most of these are so old they're probably quite bug free, but some
> probably could use a rewrite.  Some may even benefit for threading.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Casey
>



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// Yours sincerely
// Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
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