On 12/24/12 1:05 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 17:37:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/24/12 12:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, December 24, 2012 17:55:23 Minas Mina wrote:
On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 23:59:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis

wrote:
On Monday, December 24, 2012 00:48:01 Namespace wrote:
but Andrei is dead set against

- Jonathan M Davis

Why?

He's convinced that it's caused problems for C++ and was a major
mistake. You
can search the newsgroup for discussions on it. The most recent one
which
involved Andrei was in the beta group:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/4f84d6dd.5090...@digitalmars.com

- Jonathan M Davis

An important smoking gun is C++'s min(), which is allows writing
unsafe code without casts.

const int& haveANiceDay = min(4, 5);


Andrei

But that example actually works correctly.

No.

Andrei

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