On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 13:08:22 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov
wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 12:50:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Many other solutions were provided as well, including but not
limited to
- Using shorter names
- Using alias
- Using an IDE with autocomplete
- Using copy and paste
While aliases and shorter names are always good options,
autocomplete and copy/paste really aren't as the end user of
the code is either yourself or another developer, so reading
the mess produced with copy/paste makes life much more
miserable :)
Unless you're using incredibly long names (which is not a reason
to change the language) I find the explicit approach to be more
readable. If I have to parse the code and do inference, it's a
lot more work, and in some cases, more error-prone.
We've had proposals to drop the semicolon requirement. I would
hate that. It's easier to read code when I don't have to figure
out where the lines end.
I wish the `with()` operator would also be an expression, so
you could do something like:
```d
auto f = with(Flags) A | B | C |D;
```
This would be great, but it goes against the spirit of this DIP,
since you have to explicitly type out `with(Flags)`.
