Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Dec 29 05:14:43 UTC 2021


On 11/15/2021 6:14 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> Some reassurance that it won't be shot down for stupid reasons would go a long 
> way. For `static foreach`, the desired semantics were clear to Walter and Andrei 
> from the start and they really wanted that feature in DMD, so that the DIP 
> process went pretty smoothly. I am not feeling any similar excitement for 
> tuples, even though it's the most wanted feature among forum readers according 
> to the state of D 2018 survey... I just don't have the time and energy required 
> for week-long forum debates anymore.

Actually, I agree with the need for tuples, and am very open to a good design 
for it.


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