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[Walter Bright]

On 7/31/2024 5:54 PM, IchorDev wrote:
> Yes it feels a bit like a dogma,

All languages have their particular dogmas.

Scott Meyers wrote a popular series of "Effective C++" books which are accepted 
C++ dogma, for example.

D tries to discourage constructs that have a troublesome history. I know that 
some of these constructs seem like good ideas, the trouble only appears years later.