On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 16:27:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/24/13 3:38 AM, Tommi wrote:
I've always secretly hated the ambiguity in D's syntax. E.g:
foo.bar
What could foo and bar be? D has many more answers than C++:
D C++
foo bar foo bar
Module/Namespace x x
Type x x
Variable x x x x
Method x
Free function x x
Nah, C++ has also namespace, inner classes and function-local
classes... lookup and resolution are actually more complicated
than D.
No. C++ has no forward references, no UFCS, and no way to
introduce new symbols during semantic analysis.
C++ is an horrible beast, but on the identifier side, D is far
worse.
