Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Atila Neves]

On Tuesday, 12 October 2021 at 21:38:48 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 10/11/21 5:59 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
>> ...
>
> This is likely to be incomplete or overly abstract, but here's 
> my approximate take:
>
>> * Worst features implemented in a non-toy language
>
> - Turing-complete constructors

Care to explain?

> - @safe `void` initialization

For what types? It doesn't compile for pointers, for instance, 
and I don't see why void initialising an int would be unsafe.

> - @safe extern(C) function prototypes

Instead of @trusted, you mean?

> - .init

Because?

> - separation of templates and CTFE

What would it look like if they weren't separated?

> - interaction of type qualifiers with reference types

I'd love to know what you mean by this.