Editions Ideas

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On Wednesday, 11 March 2026 at 05:02:21 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 December 2025 at 21:25:29 UTC, Sadiel wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 December 2025 at 23:05:27 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> Now that Editions have been implemented (thanks Atila, 
>>> Dennis, and Rikki) it's time to solicit D features to be 
>>> dropped from the next Edition of D.
>>>
>>> I'll start by eliminating -revert=intpromote
>>
>> I think this is the way, focusing first on eliminating things 
>> instead of adding more.
>>
>> This is a list of things that the D team have wanted to remove 
>> over the years:
>>
>> - Complex number support
>> - Lazy attribute
>> - Some problematic features of classes, __traits(compiles, ...)
>> - alias this
>> - Extern C++ with an identifier for the namespace
>>
>> Now, what I would like is to simplify the syntax:
>> There are like 5 ways of creating delegates, wouldn't be 
>> better to stick to one?
>> Make different keywords instead of overusing them, for example 
>> static.
>>
>> For completeness this are things that the D team have wanted 
>> to add or change over the years:
>> - Constructor syntax
>> - Pattern Matching
>> - Import C++
>>
>> Sources:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb45QflK7Mk&t=29893s
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUkUZmkYsiY&list=PLIldXzSkPUXWH97DYBENhAqLk4DUqKUmf&index=21&t=1913s
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyQdntgzQM&list=PLIldXzSkPUXVDzfnBlXcqZF6GB_ejjkEn&index=7&t=1530s
>
> Why does everyone want to remove lazy? Just like contracts, 
> it's a great language feature that for some strange reason, 
> doesn't seem to be widely accepted by D developers. Do you know 
> how many times I've dreamed of having something like lazy, 
> writing Java for my day job? It inspired languages like Swift 
> to add @autoclosure, and yet every time we start talking about 
> features to remove, it's on the chopping block.

Lazy should be further explored:

- lazy imports
- lazy statics
- probably many more

If you fix the underlying mechanics and expand its utility, it 
can become a killer feature for D.