C++ launched its community survey, too

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 20:01:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> As Andrei wrote in TDPL, (and I paraphrase,) it sucks when 
> built-in types have magical abilities inaccessible to user 
> code.  This is a common defect in many programming languages... 
> the "magical" behaviour is wonderful when it works. But if you 
> need something that said "magic" doesn't cover, you're left up 
> the creek without a paddle.  In D, however, you're given the 
> tools to build your own equivalents of language built-ins.

Not true for implicit construction of a user-defined type. So you 
can't have a `struct Pointer` wrap a pointer fully because you 
can't pass null to a function taking a Pointer. You can't do the 
same for Algebraic element types, they're not Algebraic. In C++ 
you can, but it's by default, so you get implicit construction 
even when the *type author* didn't intend it to work.