[Dlang-internal] Some suggestions for the d language

[Max Haughton]

On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 at 21:03:36 UTC, Shadowblitz16 
wrote:
> I had some suggestions for the d language that I think would 
> improve it a bunch.
>
> 1. var keyword for autodetect of auto and mixin.
> this is just a optional way of typing auto and mixin. 
> automatically detects which one.
>
> 2. optional use of <> instead of !() and (). for templates.
> coming from the C# language it's my opinion it's easier to type 
> and is more readable.
>
> 3. coroutines (aka async functions) and yield overloads
> being able to execute functions and yield from them...
>
> bool coroutine(bool done)
> {
>   yield(false      );
>   yield(false,    3); //yields for 3 seconds (double)
>   yield(false, done); //yields until done is true (bool)
>   return true;
> }
1. Why?

2. No, the reason why D uses ! Instead of <> is to make the 
compiler saner to implement.

3. Fibers are available in the standard library, which implement 
coroutines