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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/13/15 6:32 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

That's why we need it! :o) -- Andrei