Is D still alive?

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 27.01.2011 08:10, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
> Am 27.01.2011 02:11, schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
>> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 16:41:10 spir wrote:
>>> On 01/26/2011 11:33 PM, Trass3r wrote:
>>>>> For me, D's killer features were string handling (slicing and
>>>>> appending/concatenation) and *no header files*. (No more header files!!
>>>>> Yay!!!). But auto is fantastic too though, I get sooo much use out of
>>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> Getting rid of the pointer crap (proper arrays, bounds checking, classes
>>>> as reference types,...) is definitely among the top 10 on my list.
>>>
>>> Same here. But I would prefere slicing not to check upper bound, rather
>>> just extend to the end. Or have a slicing variant do that.
>>
>> You mean that if you give an index which is too large, it just uses $ instead? 
>> That sounds seriously bug-prone to me. I'd much rather that it blew up and thus 
>> told me that my program had a bug in it rather than silently trying to work. And 
>> if for some reason you really want to be able to just have it use $ if the index 
>> is too large, it's easy to write a wrapper function which does that.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> I think he wants
> 
>   int arr[] = int[3];
>   // ...
>   int arr2[] = arr[1..5];
> 
> to be equivalent to
> 
>   int arr[] = int[3];
>   // ...
>   int arr2[] = arr[1..$];
>   arr2.length = 4;
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

Okay, I just saw in spirs reply, that for some reason was not displayed in this
branch of the thread but as a direct reply to the top post, that you understood
him correctly and I didn't :-)