Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 06:44:08PM +0000, Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:21:55 UTC, Bo wrote:
> > * scope() .. just call it "defer" just as every other language now
> > does.  It only confuses people who come from other languages. Its
> > now almost a standard. By using scope people have have no clue that
> > D has a defer.  Took even me a while to know that D had a defer
> > system in place.
> 
> The funny thing is that D had this feature long before any other
> language that I can think of (of course Lisp has probably had 6
> different implementations of it since 1972). They're the ones that
> need to get with the program ;-)

+1000!  (and by 1000! I mean factorial(1000) :-P)


T

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