D is dead

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 07:00:01 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 06:34:04 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
> wrote:
>> On 23/08/18 09:17, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> I don't see why we just can't add support for scoped lazy 
>>> parameters. It's already in the language just with a 
>>> different syntax (delegates). That would probably be an easy 
>>> fix (last famous words :)). I guess it would be better if it 
>>> could be inferred.
>>
>> Here's the interesting question, though: is this *going* to 
>> happen?
>>
>> We've known about this problem for ages now. No movement.
>>
> It's on my todo list, however I've instead been doomed to work 
> on higher priority things.
>
> More generally though, some time should be spent on trying out 
> things in the spirit of "will it blend" just to see what 
> happens.
>  Putting effort towards having a more homogeneous environment 
> in the language should in the long run pay its dividends.

Is there even any way to escape a lazy? If no, then lazy is 
identical to scope lazy.
E.g. https://run.dlang.io/is fails to compile