Local functions infer attributes?

[ixid via Digitalmars-d]

> Otherwise if you like D, then try to
>> improve it from the inside, writing dmd/Phobos/druntime pull 
>> requests,
>> instead of doing it from the outside.
>
> I'd never have my PR's pulled.
>
> I'm also not as interested in language development as it might 
> appear.
> I'm interested in writing code and getting work done, and 
> minimising
> friction.
> I'm interested in more efficient ways to get my work done, and 
> also
> opportunities to write more efficient code, but that doesn't 
> mean I
> want to stop doing my work and instead work on HOW I do my work.
>
>
>>> I find myself in a very awkward situation where I'm too far
>>> in... I can't go back to C++,
>>
>>
>> Have you taken a look at Rust?
>
> Yeah, it's just too weird for me to find realistic. It also more
> rigidly asserts it's opinions on you, which are in many cases, 
> not
> optimal. Rust typically shows a performance disadvantage, which 
> I care
> about.
> Perhaps more importantly, for practical reasons, I can't ever 
> imagine
> convincing a studio of hundreds of programmers to switch to 
> rust. C++
> programmers can learn D by osmosis, but staff retraining burden 
> to
> move to Rust seems completely unrealistic to me.

You're a vital alternative voice, please try to stick with us. 
The interest your talk and presence generated for D was huge and 
the games industry should be a major target for D. I also suspect 
Andrei is doing a major project at the moment which is making him 
uncharacteristically harsh in his responses, from his POV he's 
doing something massive to help D while the community has gone 
into a negative mode.

I'm surprised at the lack of importance insufficient control over 
ref seems to be given, though my understanding is pretty basic. 
It feels a little similar to inlining.

It might be an effective argument to give bearophile some of the 
problematic code and see what his idiomatic D version looks like 
and if what you're after is elegantly achievable. Clunky code 
would seem like a stronger argument at this point after many 
words have been exchanged. I think people are not really aware of 
the issues and if they believe the things are truly achievable 
with the language as it stands they can demonstrate it, with 
benchmarks etc.