What are the worst parts of D?

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Sep 25 14:03:52 PDT 2014


On 9/25/2014 12:58 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:40:28PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 9/25/2014 4:08 AM, Don wrote:
> [...]
>>> Ask yourself, if D had no users other than you, so that you break
>>> *anything*, what would you remove? Make a wishlist, and then find out
>>> what's possible.  Remember, when you did that before, we successfully
>>> got rid of 'bit', and there was practically no complaint.
>>
>> Top of my list would be the auto-decoding behavior of
>> std.array.front() on character arrays. Every time I'm faced with that
>> I want to throw a chair through the window.
>
> LOL... now I'm genuinely curious what's Andrei's comment on this. :-P
> Last I heard, Andrei was against removing autodecoding.

I have yet to completely convince Andrei that autodecoding is a bad idea :-(


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