Does D have too many features?

[Sean Kelly]

On May 3, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Don wrote:

> On 03.05.2012 21:08, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Yes, but why do we have it? We're not C.

Mostly because it was handy to fall back on the C API before Phobos was so well fleshed-out.  Today, I think it mostly exists to ease porting of C apps.