D mentioned in the Koka language book

Kapendev alexandroskapretsos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 10:09:35 UTC 2026


On Monday, 9 March 2026 at 23:53:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 3/9/2026 3:48 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> > While searching the Internet for "algebraic effect systems" 
>> > I fould this beautiful language called "Koka", and got 
>> > curious. They have a nice book that, believe or not, 
>> > references the D programming language here: 
>> > https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-with
>> > 
>> 
>> Thanks for the reference! They then go on to not attribute the 
>> with statement to D!
>
> Because D didn't invent the with-statement?
>
>
> T

I think Pascal uses it just to avoid some typing, but D can also 
use it for resource management with RAII.
No idea what the context here is because I did not read the blog 
lol.


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