On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 01:30:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
If we implement a way of "hiding" implementation details that
*allows*
CTFE and templates (and thus one up the C++ situation), this
will create
a stronger incentive for D adoption. It doesn't matter if it's
not hard
to "unhide" the implementation; we don't lose anything (having
no way to
hide implementation is what we already have), plus it increases
our
chances of adoption -- esp. by enterprises, who are generally
the kind
of people who even care about this issue in the first place,
and who are
the people we *want* to attract. Sounds like a win to me.
i agreed with that, involving big guys is necessary to make
language live, if we don't than D would become just another fan
loved language. it's really bad...
well, that's the point.
