Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03.01.22 10:27, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/2/2022 11:42 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> And there is also this:
>>
>> void foo(T...)(T args){}
>>
>> int[2] x;
>>
>> foo(x); // foo!(int[2]) and foo!(int,int) would now need to be the same
> 
> With such implicit conversions, the language would just descend into 
> chaos. So no :-)

It's not an implicit conversion. I am mostly trying to figure out what 
constitutes "unification" for you. (In the programming languages I 
built, `int×int` and `int^2` are literally the same type, there is 
subtyping, but all actual type conversions are explicit.)

Personally, the single thing I care most about in terms of "unification" 
is that this works:

void foo(int a,int b){}
(int,int) t;
foo(t); // ok, function expects (int,int), and (int,int) was given

But *not* this:

void foo((int,int) a,int b){}

(int,int,int) t;
foo(t); // error, function expects ((int,int),int), not (int,int,int)

I do not care much about `is((int,int)==int[2])`, but when you say you 
want to unify tuples and static arrays, that's what I think of.