Namespace:
I agree, but how? ;)
You know by yourself that Walter & Andrei are very hard to
convince by such things.
I think there is only a small number of Ada ideas worth copying,
like:
- Integral overflows;
- Ranged integers;
- A library of collections allocated in-place in the standard
library (Bounded Collections of Ada2012);
- More deterministic multi processing;
- Nicer and more handy enumerated sets;
- No undefined behaviours;
- Stack-allocated fixed-length arrays;
- etc.
Some of such things are work in progress (no undefined
behaviours), some of them can go in the D standard library
(bounded collections, variable length arrays with a bit of help
from the compiler), some of them can be implemented with help
from the compiler (partially library-defined integral type with
overflow tests). Some of them maybe can be implemented once some
bugs are sorted out and alias this gets better (ranged integers).
Some of them are just currently not present in D (more
deterministic multi processing), but D is supposed to have
something to replace them ("scope", a better "shared", Walter is
introducing a bit of object ownership behind the curtains, etc).
And then it becomes a matter of using some of those idioms.
Bye,
bearophile
