Designing a consistent language is *very* hard

[q66]

On Saturday, 28 April 2012 at 18:43:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 11:10 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> But the overload of 'is' as an operator with 'is()' as an 
>> expression
>> (and its various ugly arbitrarily assigned syntaxes)? WAT.
>
> It's not that unusual for an operator to have a binary form 
> that is totally different from its unary form. Like *
>
>> Seriously, one of the first things I'd like to see in D3 is a 
>> complete
>> overhaul of is(). I say again, the various *semantics* of it 
>> are
>> extremely useful, and are part of what makes D rock so much. 
>> But the
>> *syntax* badly needs a total redesign. We need much saner 
>> syntax
>> assigned to each of the current uses of is(), that doesn't 
>> look like it
>> was grafted in from a PHP development branch.
>
> I agree that the IsExpression syntax is a bit of a disaster. 
> Eventually we can redesign it (D3), but there's no way we have 
> time to do that now.

So .. D3 is coming? *runs*