On 11/14/2012 3:06 AM, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
On 2012-43-14 11:11, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 11/14/2012 1:49 AM, renoX wrote:
That's not strictly true: type inference works better for built-in types than
for user-defined types, with "auto x = 1;" x is an int, how do I have the same
type of syntax for MyInt?
You can have user-defined literals in D:
auto x = MyInt(1);
But the syntax for built-in types is better, in that you don't need to
write:
auto x = int(1);
If you're going to argue that D should have some facility to create user-defined
literals that are arbitrary sequences of arbitrary characters, I think you're
taking Guy's advice way beyond the breaking point.
This is pretty much true about every "principle" of language design. If you use
that principle to blindly override everything else, you do not get anything useful.
All design is a compromise of competing goals.
