Which language futures make D overcompicated?

[Patrick Schluter]

On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:44:08 UTC, Meta 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 ;-)
And defer is so vague. Defer to when? scope is obvious. Of 
course, one has to know what a scope is in the first place.