Discussion Thread: DIP 1040--Copying, Moving, and Forwarding--Community Review Round 1

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 15 March 2021 at 17:18:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Although there are definitely cases for which it's actually 
> useful, the problems it brings along make it of questionable 
> value as a general language feature.  I'd also be in favor of 
> getting rid of it, at least from classes, if not completely. 
> (The latter is probably impossible; quite a lot of my own code 
> relies on it, and I imagine I'm not the only one using it among 
> the users of D.)

A feature that can't be used wrong isn't much of a feature. alias 
this is easy to use correctly and provides immense value. The 
removal of useful features is not a good solution to bad program 
design.