D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Timon Gehr]

On 05/11/2012 10:10 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.
>
>

Try this:

bool fun(){ return foo in bar; }