D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Mehrdad" <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:oksltzwvkdrrjidcnqnm at forum.dlang.org...
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 18:16:02 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> On 11-05-2012 20:05, Mehrdad wrote:
>>> 6. The 'in' operator returns a pointer (instead of a boolean). Which is 
>>> fine, except that it's not what you'd expect in any languages other than 
>>> C/C++. i.e. Non-intuitive
>> I've always found it very intuitive actually... and it saves me from 
>> having to write extra code to do the actual lookup (speed isn't even the 
>> point here, I just want concise code).
>
> Yes, I agree, but consider that D users should NOT have to work with 
> pointers to do something so basic, like testing to see if something is in 
> an associative array!
>
> The mere fact that it uses a pointer makes it unintuitive to a large 
> number of people coming from C#/Java/Python/etc.
>

I use 'in' all the time, and I never even think about it returning a 
pointer. I just do:

if(foo in bar)

And it just works. So I don't see a particularly big problem here.