A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 04:14:30PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 3/13/15 3:14 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> >On 3/13/2015 12:01 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> >>On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 18:55:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> >>>On 3/13/2015 3:34 AM, bearophile wrote:
> >>>>"Strict mode" is a D2 with immutable+ at safe+pure by default,
> >>>
> >>>Note that you can get this largely by starting a module with the
> >>>following:
> >>>
> >>>   immutable @safe pure:
> >>>
> >>
> >>As far as I'm aware, there's no way to mark functions impure this
> >>way other than lexical location. Am I incorrect?
> >
> >You are correct, which is why D also supports:
> >
> >    immutable @safe pure {
> >       ... nice declarations ...
> >    }
> >
> >    ... naughty declarations ...
> 
> The bottom line is we need a way to undo attributes. -- Andrei

Which people have been clamoring for, for a long time now.


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