Library Typedefs are fundamentally broken

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Sep 21 15:22:05 PDT 2014


On 9/21/14, 2:32 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:48:34 +0000
> Tourist via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> Why don't you capitalize?
> it's my "one man's crusade" against the thing i see as completely
> useless.
>
>> Looks like you're a reasonable person, and this makes an outsider
>> think that your IQ is lower than the average. IMO.
> and my English is bad too (mea culpa; i have to fix it by taking some
> courses). but i believe that arguments aren't depend of the speaker.
> and i don't care what people think about my personality. if they choose
> to ignore everything i'm writing just 'cause they think that i'm dumb...
> ah, so be it. it's arguments that counts, not their source.

I don't mind the capitalization, ad hominem, etc. The arguments against 
Typedef are honestly terrible (by all participants), and the attempts at 
enhancing them through hyperbole are embarrassing. -- Andrei



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