bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
How often did you encounter that issue?
Please, let's be serious, and let's stop adding special cases to D,
or they will kill the language.
Don't get me going about what could kill the language.
Lately I have seen too many special
cases. For example the current design of the rules of integral seems
bad. It has bugs and special cases from the start.
Bugs don't imply that the feature is bad. The special cases are well
understood and are present in all of C, C++, C#, and Java.
Value range propagation as defined in D is principled and puts D on the
right side of both safety and speed. It's better than all other
languages mentioned above: safer than C and C++, and requiring much
fewer casts than C# and Java.
Andrei
