Does D have too many features?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:58:19PM +0200, deadalnix wrote:
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>  - is is messed up. It is a massive hack and have to be rationalized.

As I said in another thread, the _functionality_ of various is()
expressions are very useful and should be kept. But the _syntax_ is
completely b0rked and needs some serious redesign.


>  - version is a bad version of static if. The static if part of the
> version must go.

What's your proposal?


>  - comma expression is confusing and have very little benefice.

+1. I say that D3 should drop the comma operator. Esp. when doing so
will open up the way for having native syntax for tuples. Needing to
resort to Phobos to have a way to name a compiler-supported type is
backwards and silly.


>  - out arguments. We can return tuples, out argument is going
> backward in history.

Not when there's no way to name tuples without resorting to Phobos (or
copy-n-paste Phobos code).


>  - many array properties (.sort for instance) are useless and would
> be way better as libs.

Yeah, .sort is redundant, and besides shouldn't be an array "property"
to begin with.


T

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