What features of D you would not miss?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 01:18:30PM +0000, bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 12:19:28 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> > On Thursday, 15 September 2022 at 11:24:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
> > > alias uint = u32;
> > 
> > You have then to import the module everywhere, wich makes the
> > feature i want a painful nightmare
> 
> Could be added to the runtime module and then simply over a couple
> years the aliases will be deprecated.

That still requires basically *every single D project on the planet* to
be rewritten to the new type names over the deprecation period.

Not practical.

And seriously, guys, these are just *arbitrary names* for built-in
types. At the cost of wholesale breakage of all existing code?
Bikeshedding at its finest. This is DOA.


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