Does D have too many features?

[Sean Kelly]

On May 3, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Don Clugston wrote:

> On 03/05/12 16:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Good ones. In fact I even discounted them from this discussion because
>> I'd already considered them gone. Walter agreed that I don't mention
>> them in TDPL, with the intent to have them peter out.
>> 
>> One good step right now would be to remove NCEG operators from the
>> online documentation. Later on, we'll consider them an accept-invalid
>> bug :o).
> 
> Well, they are also used in druntime, in core.stdc.math
> 
> BTW I *hate* that module, I don't know why it exists. Even worse, it seems to be growing -- people are adding more things to it.
> Practically everything in there has a better implementation in std.math.

core.stdc.math corresponds to C99's math.h and is there as a part of the standard C interface.  It should only contain the required C99 prototypes, and in some cases functions if the C implementation is a macro.  If there is anything nonstandard in there, I'm not aware of it.