The stately := operator feature proposal

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, May 30, 2013 22:39:40 MrzlganeE wrote:
> > And I don't think that this does by a long shot. auto already
> > provides us with
> > this functionality. It's just that the syntax for auto doesn't
> 
> I understand what you guys are saying, I agree that not
> everything should be added. But come on,
> 
> On a *FEW* things you can support 2 styles.
> 
> If you support a few styles on a *few* things, it does not mean
> you have to support everything on all things.
> 
> D has features for functional programmers, and byte-level
> programmers too!

There is a significant difference between a language feature which adds actual 
functionality and one that's purely syntactic sugar.

- Jonathan M Davis