A collection of DIPs

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On Monday, 7 September 2015 at 14:44:05 UTC, nx wrote:
> https://github.com/NightmareX1337/DX
>
> Don't kill me, I'm just trying to help...
>
> You can report issues and create pull requests :)
>
>> Destroy!

OK, here are a few comments on what i agree with or not. The 
other point simply don't interest me.

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## Managed, unmanaged, something between? - pointers

You can already create, allocate new class, struct and union 
instances that are not known by the GC.
This is not well known because I've explained this several time 
on several boards to several people. So this proposal is simply 
consequence of a lack of knowledge.

But, even if... using the '^' symbol, would be bad since it's 
already used to xor.

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## Why need alias this while we have opCast?

an "alias this" expression doesn't require to cast.
Maybe you don't really see "alias this" as it is widely used:
- custom type.
- composition.

So your proposal to use cast is pointless.

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## InExpression is meaningless

No it doesn't. :)

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## ?? operator

Yes, the 'Null coalescing operator' would be great.

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## Templates should use exclamation!

No, you can clearly differentiate declaration from instantiation 
thanks to the current syntax.

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## friend classes

You can put the classes in different modules and then 'private' 
and 'protected' are sufficient to get something like friend 
classes.