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On Friday, 9 August 2013 at 00:57:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 9 August 2013 at 00:34:31 UTC, JS wrote:
>
>> Are you not smart enough to come up with use cases yourself? 
>> This is not some extremely rare thing that might be used 1 in 
>> 10^100.
>
> It's not his proposal. The burden of proof is on you.

Um, not really... Do you think that god made some law that 
requires me to? If he, you, or anyone else doesn't think such a 
feature is a good idea then so be it... It' not my problem is you 
want the D language to suffer. At some point something better 
will come with better features and D will succumb and all the 
time you invested will be a waste.

I would think that if you really cared about the D lang you would 
want it to be the best it can...

In any case, I know very well that it is quite useless for me to 
make suggestions for D... but I'm definitely not going to sit 
here and type up use cases because you are too lazy, don't have 
the foresight, or don't care to think about the issue. The fact 
is, I'm most likely not going to be able to convince you to 
accept anything I say because:

1. Something only useful to you is acceptable. You don't find 
this useful because you haven't used this construct, hence it is 
not acceptable. (This is generally known as close minded)

2. Generally things I "propose" are simplifications of semantics. 
I like to work efficiently. My proposes can be accomplished long 
hand... and for you, that is good enough... Either because you do 
not use such semantics and hence get tired of the inefficiency or 
don't like simplifications because you inanely feel they take 
away from the language by adding too much "overhead"(in some form 
or another).

So it is what it is. Take it or leave it. I've given the 
proposal, in maybe 10 years D will probably get around to having 
it... if it's still around at all.