Does D have too many features?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/1/12 11:38 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 03:22:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> One feature to remove stands out - the struct initialization:
>> S s = { 1, 2 };
>
> I could live without that one, because D has an alternative:
>
> auto s = S(1, 2);
>
>
> And I'd be sad if you took that out, as I use it a lot, especially
> for trivial types:
>
> struct Html { string src; }
> struct Text { string src; }
> struct Point { int x; int y; }
> struct Size { int width; int height; }
>
> which I like because then we can use the types for overloading,
> static checks, etc., and it is very very simple to drop in and
> use.
>
> I guess there could be opCalls or constructors, but poo, it
> works now without that and I like it.

Well, so probably we shouldn't remove that feature either :o).

Andrei